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Author | : Michael Henle |
Publisher | : American Mathematical Soc. |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2012-12-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0883859130 |
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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.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 0691169691 |
Download Undiluted Hocus-Pocus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-05-04 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0486131629 |
Download Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Sonya Sawyer Fritz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351376276 |
Download The Victorian Era in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Sara K. Day |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2018-01-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351376268 |
Download The Victorian Period in Twenty-First Century Children’s and Adolescent Literature and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Zack Hiwiller |
Publisher | : New Riders |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2015-12-09 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 013439464X |
Download Players Making Decisions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Game designers today are expected to have an arsenal of multi-disciplinary skills at their disposal in the fields of art and design, computer programming, psychology, economics, composition, education, mythology—and the list goes on. How do you distill a vast universe down to a few salient points? Players Making Decisions brings together the wide range of topics that are most often taught in modern game design courses and focuses on the core concepts that will be useful for students for years to come. A common theme to many of these concepts is the art and craft of creating games in which players are engaged by making meaningful decisions. It is the decision to move right or left, to pass versus shoot, or to develop one’s own strategy that makes the game enjoyable to the player. As a game designer, you are never entirely certain of who your audience will be, but you can enter their world and offer a state of focus and concentration on a task that is intrinsically rewarding. This detailed and easy-to-follow guide to game design is for both digital and analog game designers alike and some of its features include: A clear introduction to the discipline of game design, how game development teams work, and the game development process Full details on prototyping and playtesting, from paper prototypes to intellectual property protection issues A detailed discussion of cognitive biases and human decision making as it pertains to games Thorough coverage of key game elements, with practical discussions of game mechanics, dynamics, and aesthetics Practical coverage of using simulation tools to decode the magic of game balance A full section on the game design business, and how to create a sustainable lifestyle within it
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1999-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1466823321 |
Download The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : Hill and Wang |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009-10-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1429935545 |
Download When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Best known as the longtime writer of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American—which introduced generations of readers to the joys of recreational mathematics—Martin Gardner has for decades pursued a parallel career as a devastatingly effective debunker of what he once famously dubbed "fads and fallacies in the name of science." It is mainly in this latter role that he is onstage in this collection of choice essays. When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish takes aim at a gallery of amusing targets, ranging from Ann Coulter's qualifications as an evolutionary biologist to the logical fallacies of precognition and extrasensory perception, from Santa Claus to The Wizard of Oz, from mutilated chessboards to the little-known "one-poem poet" Langdon Smith (the original author of this volume's title line). The writings assembled here fall naturally into seven broad categories: Science, Bogus Science, Mathematics, Logic, Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and Politics. Under each heading, Gardner displays an awesome level of erudition combined with a wicked sense of humor.
Author | : Cristopher Hollingsworth |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2009-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1587298198 |
Download Alice Beyond Wonderland Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Alice beyond Wonderland explores the ubiquitous power of Lewis Carroll’s imagined world. Including work by some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the field of Lewis Carroll studies, all introduced by Karoline Leach’s edgy foreword, Alice beyond Wonderland considers the literary, imaginative, and cultural influences of Carroll’s 19th-century story on the high-tech, postindustrial cultural space of the twenty-first century. The scholars in this volume attempt to move beyond the sexually charged permutations of the "Carroll myth," the image of an introverted man fumbling into literary immortality through his love for a prepubescent Alice. Contributions include an essay comparing Dantean and Carrollian underworlds, one investigating child characters as double agents in untamed lands, one placing Wonderland within the geometrical and algebraic “fourth dimension,” one investigating the visual and verbal interplay of hand imagery, and one exploring the influence of Japanese translations of Alice on the Gothic-Lolita subculture of neo-Victorian enthusiasts. This is a bold, capacious, and challenging work.
Author | : Martin Gardner |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2012-06-19 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0486116409 |
Download Best Remembered Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets. Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.