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Product Description: This collection of essays by America's foremost polymath delves into some of the many fascinating subjects in which Martin Gardner has had an abiding interest. Focusing primarily on literary and philosophical subjects, Order and Surprise is the sequel to the widely acclaimed Science: Good, Bad and Bogus...read more

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9780879752194 | Prometheus Books, September 1, 1983, cover price $38.99 | About this edition: This collection of essays by America's foremost polymath delves into some of the many fascinating subjects in which Martin Gardner has had an abiding interest.

Bei dem englischen Mathematiker John Edenser Littlewood steht in der Einleitung zu Mathematician's Miscellany, einer Sammlung mathematischer Miscellen, unter anderem der Satz: "Ein guter mathematischer Scherz ist immer besser - und zwar sogar als Mathematik besser - als ein ganzes Dutzend mittelmaSiger gelehrter Ab handlungen. " Mathematische Scherze bilden den Inhalt dieses Buches - wenn man groBzUgig ist und alles als Scherz gelten laBt, was ein gewisses Element des VergnUglichen enthalt. Es gibt kaum einen Mathematiker, der nicht eine gewisse Freude an mathematischen Spielereien hatte; aber die meisten lassen sich auf solche Spielereien natUrlich nur mit MaBen und innerhalb vernUnftiger Grenzen ein. Daneben aber gibt es auch Menschen, auf die die Faszination des mathematischen Spiels beinahe wie ein Rauschgift wirken kann. Lushin, der Held von Nabokovs groBartigem Schach spielerroman "Lushins Verteidigung" (The Defense), ist solch ein Mensch. Er ist yom Schachspiel (das ja unleugbar ein Produkt des mathematischen Spieltriebs ist) dermaBen besessen, daB er nach und nach vollig den Kontakt zur Wirklichkeit ver liert und zuguterletzt die erbarmliche Partie seines Lebens durch einen Sprung aus dem Fenster - ein "Selbstmatt" - beenden muS.

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9783528283216 | 3 edition (Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, January 1, 1984), cover price $59.99
9783528083212 | Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, January 1, 1973, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: Bei dem englischen Mathematiker John Edenser Littlewood steht in der Einleitung zu Mathematician's Miscellany, einer Sammlung mathematischer Miscellen, unter anderem der Satz: "Ein guter mathematischer Scherz ist immer besser - und zwar sogar als Mathematik besser - als ein ganzes Dutzend mittelmaSiger gelehrter Ab handlungen.

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Suggests math games and problems involving binary numbers, paper cutting, the four-color map theorem, ellipses, calculus, and games

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9780226282473 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1984), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Suggests math games and problems involving binary numbers, paper cutting, the four-color map theorem, ellipses, calculus, and games

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Relates the story behind these celebrated poems
By Martin Gardner (editor)

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9780486285986 | 3 revised edition (Dover Pubns, October 1, 1995), cover price $8.95
9780226282633, titled "Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads About the Mighty Casey" | 2 sub edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1984), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Relates the story behind these celebrated poems

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Presents thirty-seven science fiction tales, each featuring a puzzle by a master puzzle-maker

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9780394721408 | Random House Inc, May 1, 1984, cover price $5.95 | About this edition: Presents thirty-seven science fiction tales, each featuring a puzzle by a master puzzle-maker

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Product Description: The Titanic's memory lives on today in documentaries, movies, and even a Broadway musical. Persistent investigators remain on the case, offering new theories to explain its demise.Those who strongly believe in precognition point to Morgan Robertson's sea novel The Wreck of the Titan, published fourteen years before the Titanic went down, as proof of the power of extrasensory perception...read more
By Martin Gardner (editor)

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9780879752576 | Subsequent edition (Prometheus Books, September 1, 1984), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: The Titanic's memory lives on today in documentaries, movies, and even a Broadway musical.

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9780879752828 | Prometheus Books, March 1, 1985, cover price $24.99

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Gathers mathematical puzzles, problems, games, and anecdotes about mathematical and scientific discoveries (view table of contents)

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9780716715894 | Reprint edition (W H Freeman & Co, August 1, 1985), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Gathers mathematical puzzles, problems, games, and anecdotes about mathematical and scientific discoveries

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Discusses the widespread belief that the sinking of the Titanic was described before it happened, and presents the complete texts of Morgan Robinson's short novel, 'Futility,' about the sinking of a ship called the Titan, and similar works
By Martin Gardner (editor)

Hardcover:

9780879753214 | Prometheus Books, March 1, 1986, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The Titanic's memory lives on today in documentaries, movies, and even a Broadway musical.

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9781573922012, titled "The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?" | Revised edition (Prometheus Books, March 1, 1998), cover price $23.99 | About this edition: Discusses the widespread belief that the sinking of the Titanic was described before it happened, and presents the complete texts of Morgan Robinson's short novel, 'Futility,' about the sinking of a ship called the Titan, and similar works

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Gathers paradoxes, logic puzzles, number problems, geometric problems, gambling puzzles, optical illusions, string, word, and chess problems featured in Scientific American

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9780226282565, titled "The Unexpected Hanging: And Other Mathematical Diversions" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1991), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Gathers paradoxes, logic puzzles, number problems, geometric problems, gambling puzzles, optical illusions, string, word, and chess problems featured in Scientific American
9780671628192 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, October 1, 1986), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Gathers paradoxes, logic puzzles, number problems, geometric problems, gambling puzzles, optical illusions, and string, word, and chess problems featured in scientific American

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Introduces puzzles and math problems involving coincidence, ciphers, games, the I Ching, geometric figures, and paradoxes

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9780716717997 | W H Freeman & Co, October 1, 1986, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Introduces puzzles and math problems involving coincidence, ciphers, games, the I Ching, geometric figures, and paradoxes

Paperback:

9780486252117 | Dover Pubns, October 1, 1986, cover price $6.95

Prebinding:

9780833557636 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $12.35

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Describes puzzles involving time travel paradoxes, hexes, stars, cards, anamorphic art, magic squares, and polygons

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9780716719250 | W H Freeman & Co, August 1, 1987, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes puzzles involving time travel paradoxes, hexes, stars, cards, anamorphic art, magic squares, and polygons

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Presents puzzles involving polygons, numbers, topology, division, mazes, logic, magic squares, chess, cards, and paper folding

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9780226282534 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, August 15, 1987), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Presents puzzles involving polygons, numbers, topology, division, mazes, logic, magic squares, chess, cards, and paper folding

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9780883856338, titled "Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales" | Mathematical Assn of Amer, December 1, 1987, cover price $15.00

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9780883856321 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, February 1, 1988, cover price $15.00

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Combines two previously published works, resulting in ninety-three brain-teasing puzzles with an emphasis on humor

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9780486256375 | Dover Pubns, May 1, 1988, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Combines two previously published works, resulting in ninety-three brain-teasing puzzles with an emphasis on humor

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9780879754327 | Prometheus Books, April 1, 1988, cover price $20.95

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9780879756444, titled "The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher" | Reprint edition (Prometheus Books, April 1, 1991), cover price $26.99

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Offers puzzles, games and problems featuring matrixes, probability, topology, card tricks, paradoxes, and logic

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9780226282541 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 1988), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Offers puzzles, games and problems featuring matrixes, probability, topology, card tricks, paradoxes, and logic

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Offers puzzles and problems dealing with logic, fractals, negative numbers, topology, and geometry

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9780716719861 | W H Freeman & Co, November 1, 1988, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Offers puzzles and problems dealing with logic, fractals, negative numbers, topology, and geometry

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Includes articles on the puzzles in James Joyce's Ulysses and on the fantasies of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Lord Dunsany, Gilbert Chesterton, and H.G. Wells (view table of contents)

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9780226282459 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 1, 1989, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Gathers book reviews, and essays about poetry, science fiction, fantasy, 3D TV, names, and language

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9781573927444, titled "Gardner's Whys & Wherefores" | Reprint edition (Prometheus Books, September 1, 1999), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Includes articles on the puzzles in James Joyce's Ulysses and on the fantasies of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C.

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A young divinity student's search for the meaning of life drives him towards a nervous breakdown

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9780879759117 | Reprint edition (Prometheus Books, October 1, 1994), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: A young divinity student's search for the meaning of life drives him towards a nervous breakdown
9780374521875 | Noonday Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A young divinity student's search for the meaning of life drives him towards a nervous breakdown

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Book by Gardner, Martin

Paperback:

9780317996166 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, April 1, 1990, cover price $15.00
9780883854495 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, April 1, 1990, cover price $15.00
9780883854488 | Updated edition (Mathematical Assn of Amer, July 1, 1989), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Book by Gardner, Martin

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