The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambling odds.

"Gardner conjures problems that are both profound and silly; exquisite truths and outrageous absurdities; paradoxes, anagrams, palindromes and party tricks... He knows, better than most, how many amazing true things there are in the world." — Newsweek

• Author
• Martin Gardner

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 264

• Publisher
• University Of Chicago Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780226282565

• Genres
• mathematics, puzzles, science

• Release date
• 1991