by Martin Gardner · Rba Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447355952
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«Mosaicos de Penrose y escotillas cifradas» is the recreational mathematics book by Martin Gardner, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover (288 pages, in Spanish).
This volume brings together articles that Martin Gardner published in Scientific American magazine, in a revised and expanded edition with contributions from the author and readers. The subject matter covers recreational mathematics: cipher systems for encoding messages, mechanical puzzles and number games, with a popular and playful approach.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos collection, with texts in Spanish, and was published in 2008.
Aimed at fans of recreational mathematics, brain teasers and science communication.
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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.
