Synopses & Reviews
Martin Gardner begins his mathematical magic show by conjuring numbers out of Nothing.
He ends it by letting us dabble with the eerie mathematics (and metaphysics) of Everything....
Here, from America's mathematical Pi'd Piper, is a richly various gathering (the eighth) of his incomparable entertainments from Scientific American. Here are choice games, puzzles, illusions, and uncategorizable diversions from around the mathematical world, some of them easy, some of them tough and supertough, all of them illumined by what Time magazine has called Martin Garner's "playful genius for mathematics and logic."