Undiluted Hocus-Pocus : : The Autobiography of Martin Gardner /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Gardner, Martin,
MitwirkendeR:
Diaconis, Persi,
Randi, James,
TeilnehmendeR:
Diaconis, Persi.
Randi, James.
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

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