The Colossal Book of Mathematics

Collects together Gardner's most popular pieces from his legendary Mathematical Games column, which ran in Scientific American for twenty-five years. Beginning ... » 

Collects together Gardner's most popular pieces from his legendary Mathematical Games column, which ran in Scientific American for twenty-five years. Beginning with simple topics, Gardner guides us through complicated and wondrous worlds: using basic algebra he contemplates the mesmerizing, linguistic and numerical possibilities of palindromes; using simple goemetry, he dissects the principles of symmetry.(26) «