Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments
Title | Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | W H Freeman & Company |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Mathematical recreations. |
ISBN | 9780716719250 |
Describes puzzles involving time travel paradoxes, hexes, stars, cards, anamorphic art, magic squares, and polygons
Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments
Title | Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1470463652 |
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This is the original 1988 edition and contains columns published from 1974-1976.
Mathematical Circus
Title | Mathematical Circus PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2020-10-06 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1470463598 |
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, first published in 1979, contains columns published in the magazine from 1968-1971. This 1992 MAA edition contains a foreword by Donald Knuth and a postscript and extended bibliography added by Gardner for this edition.
Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers
Title | Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1997-07-24 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780883855218 |
Another superb collection of articles from Martin Gardner, the king of recreational mathematics.
Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions
Title | Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Gardner |
Publisher | American Mathematical Soc. |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2020-10-05 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 1470463520 |
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American inspired and entertained several generations of mathematicians and scientists. Gardner in his crystal-clear prose illuminated corners of mathematics, especially recreational mathematics, that most people had no idea existed. His playful spirit and inquisitive nature invite the reader into an exploration of beautiful mathematical ideas along with him. These columns were both a revelation and a gift when he wrote them; no one--before Gardner--had written about mathematics like this. They continue to be a marvel. This volume, originally published in 1959, contains the first sixteen columns published in the magazine from 1956-1958. They were reviewed and briefly updated by Gardner for this 1988 edition.
Time Machines
Title | Time Machines PDF eBook |
Author | Paul J. Nahin |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 2001-04-20 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780387985718 |
This book explores the idea of time travel from the first account in English literature to the latest theories of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Igor Novikov. This very readable work covers a variety of topics including: the history of time travel in fiction; the fundamental scientific concepts of time, spacetime, and the fourth dimension; the speculations of Einstein, Richard Feynman, Kurt Goedel, and others; time travel paradoxes, and much more.
Paradoxes of Time Travel
Title | Paradoxes of Time Travel PDF eBook |
Author | Ryan Wasserman |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2017-12-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192511823 |
Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. He draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. The Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture.