9780809087372
When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That
Martin Gardner
ISBN 13: 9780809087372
Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
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Best known as the longtime writer of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American--which introduced generations of readers to the joys of recreational mathematics--Martin Gardner has for decades pursued a parallel career as a devastatingly effective debunker of what he once famously dubbed "fads and fallacies in the name of science." It is mainly in this latter role that he is onstage in this collection of choice essays. WHEN YOU WERE A TADPOLE AND I WAS A FISH takes aim at a gallery of amusing targets, ranging from Ann Coulter's qualifications as an evolutionary biologist to the logical fallacies of precognition and extrasensory perception, from Santa Claus to THE WIZARD OF OZ, from mutilated chessboards to the little-known "one-poem poet" Langdon Smith (the original author of this volume's title line). The writings assembled here fall naturally into seven broad categories: Science, Bogus Science, Mathematics, Logic, Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and Politics. Under each heading, Gardner displays an awesome level of erudition combined with a wicked sense of humor.
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"In all his books,...[Gardner] displays an almost childlike sense of curiosity, coupled with a keen analytical eye....The essays here...are uniformly well reasoned and thought provoking....Readers who like their essays to be full of new ideas should absolutely seek him out."
David Pitt, Booklist, 10/01/2009
Review:"I've been an awestruck Martin Gardner fan my entire life -- but then I'm in very good company. Gardner's admirers have included Arthur C. Clarke, W.H. Auden..., Noam Chomsky, Carl Sagan, Stephen Jay Gould, Douglas Hofstadter and the entire French literary group called the Oulipo....If you're already addicted to Martin Gardner's plain prose, gentle, reasonable voice, exhaustive research and relentless logic, you will want to add this book to your collection."
Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 10/22/2009
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