by Martin Gardner · Alianza Editorial Madrid · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420602554
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This book by Martin Gardner, published in 1987 by Alianza Editorial, is a compilation of commentaries and reviews that the author wrote since the 1940s. The texts focus on works of great philosophical and scientific interest, covering topics such as logical paradoxes, symmetry phenomena, relativity, quantum mechanics, and cosmology. Gardner, known for his defense of reason, also lashes out against parapsychology and astrology in these writings.
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.
