by Martin Gardner · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447354399
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«Viajes por el tiempo y otras perplejidades matemáticas» is Martin Gardner's work of mathematical popularization, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardcover.
Collection of mathematical problems and games inspired by the section Martin Gardner published in Scientific American. The volume brings together puzzles on time paradoxes, surprising coincidences and anamorphic art, with geometric and logical reasoning that turns each chapter into a stimulus to keep playing with mathematics.
The book belongs to the Biblioteca Desafíos Matemáticos collection. The original edition was published in 1987 under the title Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments.
It will appeal to those who enjoy riddles, logic games and mathematical popularization.
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.
