Martin Gardner - A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind & Entertaining the Spirit - Paperback Book

Name: Martin Gardner - A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind & Entertaining the Spirit - Paperback Book
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Martin Gardner

This book presents a collection of problems and puzzles, and provides the tools and projects to furnish all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout and which foster an agility of the mind as they entertain. It is dedicated to all the underpaid teachers of mathematics everywhere. > For many decades, Martin Gardner, the Grand Master of mathematical puzzles, has provided the tools and projects to furnish our all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout. Gardner's problems foster an agility of the mind as they entertain. This volume presents a new collection of problems and puzzles not previously published in book form. Martin Gardner has dedicated it to \""all the underpaid teachers of mathematics everywhere, who love their subject and are able to communicate that love to their students.\"" > Part I 1. The Opaque Cube 2. The Square Root of 2 = 1.414 213 562 373 O95 3. Flip, the Psychic Robot 4. The Propositional Calculus with Directed Graphs 5. Mathematics and Wordplay 6. Steh