by Martin Gardner · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788447354993
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«¡Ajá! Inspiración» is Martin Gardner's popular mathematics essay, published by RBA in paperback (340 pages, in Spanish).
Martin Gardner, a great popularizer of mathematics, pauses at the moment when a sudden idea illuminates a problem: the «inspiración ajá», the same impulse that led Archimedes to shout «¡Eureka!». With puzzles, paradoxes and logic games, the book invites readers to recognize and practice that creative spark.
The book belongs to the Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos collection. Its original title is «Aha! Insight», first published in 1978.
Recommended for curious readers who enjoy puzzles, logic and popular science.
Martin Gardner was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science. His interests also encompassed magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
