During this time I am reading several books on mathematics. There are several reasons, firstly I returned to Rome for a month and I only have the well-stocked library of Dad, then they are under stress, and mathematics books are great for relaxing. There is nothing better than a good puzzle to occupy the mind and not think about everyday problems.
Martin Gardner is a myth, and his essays are as always very nice. I found a particularly happy choice of essays, topics are very varied, as well as styles. We move from mathematical games and paradoxes to the presentation of complex scientific theories, such as strings. Talk about issues mathematicians known as the Fibonacci series, and then moves on topics completely outside his field, as genetics and neurology (though I regret to say that genetics seems to have ideas at times slightly confusing).
The style is often witty and imaginative, I liked the stories more or less science fiction, the rest many of the essays presented here have been published in the journal Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine , and I appreciate this very much ties with one of my favorite writers .
I also really liked his sociological and philosophical. Cites numerous philosophers, more or less known to the general public, presents the views of different schools and finally take a position critical reasons for his point of view on the basis of what it expresses.
This book I also recalled another of my favorite writers, the great Gould : Gardner as he has shown in these essays a wide culture and considerable curiosity about different phenomena between them.
He also shared with the famous paleontologist also his efforts against the pseudoscience that I can not appreciate.
PS: my copy, bought in a Feltrinelli in Rome, was printed wrong. I contacted the publisher (Zanichelli), and they're very kind. For those who need it I called the number you find on this website http://www.zanichelli.it/contatti/
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