by Martin Gardner · Salvat · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447138074
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«Los enigmas del robot Farfel» is a puzzle and science fiction book by Martin Gardner, published by Salvat in hardcover (150 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together puzzles and science fiction stories around the robot Farfel. The short narratives are combined with mathematical challenges, within a collection presented as «challenges and games for the mind».
First title in the «Matemática recreativa» series. Translation by Margarita Mizraji of the original «Puzzles from other worlds»; edition published on December 1, 2017.
For readers fond of mathematical pastimes, logic and science fiction.
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.
