by Martin Gardner · RBA Coleccionables, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447353316
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«¡Ajá! Paradojas que hacen pensar» is Martin Gardner's collection of mathematical paradoxes, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (271 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together paradoxes and puzzles with which Martin Gardner shows that mathematics can be as surprising as a magic trick. Each case invites readers to discover the logical or mathematical explanation hidden behind the apparent contradiction, and they learn while trying to solve them.
It is part of the «Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos» collection. It is the Spanish translation of the original 1975 work «Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight».
Recommended for curious readers and fans of mathematical games 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.
