Undiluted Hocus-Pocus : : The Autobiography of Martin Gardner / / Martin Gardner.
Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theoris...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 54 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Foreword: Magic, Mathematics, and Mysterians
- Preface
- Prologue: I Am a Mysterian
- 1. Earliest Memories
- 2. Lee School
- 3. Tulsa Central High, I
- 4. Central High, II
- 5. Hutchins and Adler
- 6. Richard McKeon
- 7. I Lose My Faith
- 8. Chicago, I
- 9. Chicago, II
- 10. I Become a Journalist
- 11. Mother and Dad
- 12. The Navy, I
- 13. The Navy, II
- 14. Esquire and Humpty
- 15. Scientific American
- 16. Pseudoscience
- 17. Math and Magic Friends
- 18. Charlotte
- 19. Bob and Betty
- 20. God
- 21. My Philosophy
- Afterword: My Most Elegant Friend
- Index