Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century
Title | Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Henle |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2012-12-31 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0883859130 |
Martin Gardner enormously expanded the field of recreational mathematics with the Mathematical Games columns he wrote for Scientific American for over 25 years and the more than 70 books he published. He also had a long relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, publishing articles in MAA journals right up to his death in 2010. This book collects the articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999 to 2012 that spring from and comment on his work.
Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century
Title | Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Henle |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 297 |
Release | 2012-12-31 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1614448019 |
Martin Gardner enormously expanded the field of recreational mathematics with the Mathematical Games columns he wrote for Scientific American for over 25 years and the more than 70 books he published. He also had a long relationship with the Mathematical Association of America, publishing articles in MAA journals right up to his death in 2010. This book collects the articles Gardner wrote for the MAA in the twenty-first century, together with other articles the MAA published from 1999 to 2012 that spring from and comment on his work.
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus
Title | Undiluted Hocus-Pocus PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2015-11-03 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 0691169691 |
The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and science 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, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by 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 varied and wide-ranging professional pursuits. He 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. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus offers a rare, intimate look at Gardner’s life and work, and the experiences that shaped both.
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Title | Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 385 |
Release | 2012-05-04 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0486131629 |
Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
Title | The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1999-08-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1466823321 |
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener showcases Martin Gardner as the consummate philosopher, thinker, and great mathematician that he is. Exploring issues that range from faith to prayer to evil to immortality, and far beyond, Garnder challenges the discerning reader with fundamental questions of classical philosophy and life's greater meanings. Recalling such philosophers was Wittgenstein and Arendt, The Whys of Philosophical Scrivener embodies Martin Garner's unceasing interest and joy in the impenetrable mysteries of life.
The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture
Title | The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Sonya Sawyer Fritz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 267 |
Release | 2018-01-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351376276 |
Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions and upheavals, particularly as they relate to child and adolescent readers and our experiences of them. The essays therein suggest that we struggle now, as the Victorians did then, to assert a cohesive understanding of young readers, and that this lack of cohesion is a result of or a parallel to the disruptions taking place on a larger (even global) scale.
The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture
Title | The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Sara K. Day |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 426 |
Release | 2018-01-19 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351376268 |
Victorian literature for audiences of all ages provides a broad foundation upon which to explore complex and evolving ideas about young people. In turn, this collection argues, contemporary works for young people that draw on Victorian literature and culture ultimately reflect our own disruptions and upheavals, particularly as they relate to child and adolescent readers and our experiences of them. The essays therein suggest that we struggle now, as the Victorians did then, to assert a cohesive understanding of young readers, and that this lack of cohesion is a result of or a parallel to the disruptions taking place on a larger (even global) scale.