Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American Columns.MARTIN GARDNER'S MATHEMATICAL GAMES: The Entire Collection of His Scientific American Scientific American U.S. monthly magazine interpreting scientific developments to lay readers. It was founded in 1845 as a newspaper describing new inventions. By 1853 its circulation had reached 30,000 and it was reporting on various sciences, such as astronomy and Columns MARTIN GARDNER For readers not familiar with Gardner, he is the author of more than 100 books on topics as diverse as mathematics, religion, and conjuring. But for 30 years, starting in 1956, he was best known for his writing in Scientific American. His monthly column used games and problem solving problem solving Process involved in finding a solution to a problem. Many animals routinely solve problems of locomotion, food finding, and shelter through trial and error. to introduce several generations of readers to aspects of math from classical geometry and number theory to cryptography, fractals, and graph theory. Included on this compact disk are not only all 300 magazine columns but also the full texts of 15 of his books plus photographs and an in-depth interview. All are presented in portable-document format (PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. ) that will work on both Macintosh and PC platforms. The disk includes PDF-reader software. The texts are all searchable, something avid math fans will surely take advantage of to find, for instance, 135 uses of the word flexagon flex·a·gon n. A folded paper construction that can be flexed along its folds to reveal and conceal its faces alternately. [Blend of flex + hexagon.] . Mathematical Assn. of Amer., 2005, 4,500 p., color photos, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , $55.95. |
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