num_pages: 148
description: Introducing robots, bacteriophages, toroids and Omniscient Rational Advance Calculators of Local Events...Mathematical wizard and celebrated author of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions and Mathematical Carnival, Martin Gardner has devised thirty-sic mind-bending stories, each containing challenging problems based on geometry, logarithms, topology, probability, weird number series, logic and wordplay.Designed to amuse, provoke, entertain and torture, they will propel you unto uncharted universes of dazzling mathematical pyrotechnics and mind-blowing concepts - unfathomable black holes of diversion and fun.
language: English
title: Science Fiction Puzzle Tales
titlecomplete: Science Fiction Puzzle Tales
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Random House Value Publishing