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Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, And The Tower Of Hanoi : Martin Gardner’s First Book Of Mathematical Puzzles And Games

Origami, Eleusis, And The Soma Cube : Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Diversions

Did Adam And Eve Have Navels? : Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects

  • Did Adam And Eve Have Navels? : Discourses On Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, And Other Dubious Subjects
  • Attribution

    Martin Gardner
  • Publication Details

    Book, W.W. Norton, 2000
  • Description

    A hilariously skeptical work that ranks with Harold Bloom’s Omens of the Millennium and Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World. In Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?, Gardner muses on topics as diverse as numerology, the late Senator Claiborne Pell’s paranormal passions, Freud’s flawed dream theory, the Heaven’s Gate suicides, William F. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  Q173 .G34 2000  AVAILABLE

Calculus Made Easy : Being A Very-simplest Introduction To Those Beautiful Methods Of Reckoning Which Are Generally Called By The Terrifying Names Of The Differential Calculus And The Integral Calculus

  • Calculus Made Easy : Being A Very-simplest Introduction  To Those Beautiful Methods Of Reckoning Which Are  Generally Called By The Terrifying Names Of The  Differential Calculus And The Integral Calculus
  • Attribution

    Silvanus P. Thompson and Martin Gardner
  • Publication Details

    Book, Newly rev., updated, expanded, and annotated for its 1998 ed, St. Martin’s Press, 1998
  • Description

    Calculus Made Easy has long been the most popular calculus primer, and this major revision of the classic math text makes the subject at hand still more comprehensible to readers of all levels. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  QA303 .T45 1998  AVAILABLE

Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic : More Notes Of A Fringe Watcher

  • Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic : More Notes Of A Fringe  Watcher
  • Attribution

    Martin Gardner
  • Publication Details

    Book, Prometheus Books, 1996
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AC8 .G335 1996  AVAILABLE

The Night Is Large : Collected Essays, 1938-1995

  • The Night Is Large : Collected Essays, 1938-1995
  • Attribution

    Martin Gardner
  • Publication Details

    Book, 1st ed, St. Martin’s Press, 1996
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PS3557.A714 A6 1996  LOST&PD6-11/07

Perplexing Puzzles And Tantalizing Teasers

More Annotated Alice : Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass And What Alice Found There

The New Ambidextrous Universe : Symmetry And Asymmetry From Mirror Reflections To Superstrings

Time Travel And Other Mathematical Bewilderments

Riddles Of The Sphinx : And Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales

  • Riddles Of The Sphinx : And Other Mathematical Puzzle  Tales
  • Attribution

    Martin Gardner ; [technical drawings by Kelly Solis-Navarro ; cartoons by John Johnson]
  • Publication Details

    Book, Mathematical Association of America, 1987
  • Description

    Martin Gardner begins Riddles with questions about splitting up polygons into prescribed shapes and he ends this book with an offer of a prize of $100 for the first person to send him a 3 x# magic square consisting of consecutive primes. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (LOWER LEVEL)  GV1493 .G343 1987  AVAILABLE

The Nursery "Alice,"

Codes, Ciphers, And Secret Writing

The Annotated Alice: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland & Through The Looking Glass,

  • The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland &  Through The Looking Glass,
  • Attribution

    by Lewis Carroll [pseud.] Illustrated by John Tenniel. With an introd. and notes by Martin Gardner
  • Publication Details

    Book, [1st ed.], C. N. Potter, 1960
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  PR4611 .A72 1960  AVAILABLE

The Annotated Ancient Mariner. The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner,