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ekins Special user Portland, Oregon 513 Posts |
I found this book on the Amazon website and hadn't see anything about it before. It's not available yet, but is currently scheduled for Sept. 31st.
Here's the description from Amazon. Quote:
Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland. His informal, recreational approach to mathematics delighted countless readers and inspired many to pursue careers in mathematics and the sciences. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a disarmingly candid self-portrait of the man evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "single brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality and good science against mysticism and anti-intellectualism. Gardner takes readers from his childhood in Oklahoma to his college days at the University of Chicago, his service in the navy, and his varied and wide-ranging professional pursuits. Before becoming a columnist for Scientific American, he was a caseworker in Chicago during the Great Depression, a reporter for the Tulsa Tribune, an editor for Humpty Dumpty, and a short-story writer for Esquire, among other jobs. Gardner shares colorful anecdotes about the many fascinating people he met and mentored, and voices strong opinions on the subjects that matter to him most, from his love of mathematics to his uncompromising stance against pseudoscience. For Gardner, our mathematically structured universe is undiluted hocus-pocus--a marvelous enigma, in other words. |
Claudio Inner circle Europe 1946 Posts |
31st September?, it'll never see the day then...
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts |
Thanks for the Heads-Up. That's definitely on the 'Buy' list.
I also noticed, on Amazon, that 'Science Magic' has been reprinted. It's been years since that was available. That $5 paperback is perfect for sending to your High School or Grade School Science Department, and is also a good one to pass on to budding magicians.
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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magicfish Inner circle 7016 Posts |
Who is the author?
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csantill New user 97 Posts |
Autobiography,
Martin Gardner, with Foreword by Persi Diaconis, and afterword by James Randi |
Larry Davidson Inner circle Boynton Beach, FL 5270 Posts |
Is it an authorized autobiography? (j/k)
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