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The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars: An Exhibition of Surprising Structures across Dimensions (Paperback)

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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Princeton University Press; New edition edition (29 Dec 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0691115974
ISBN-13: 978-0691115979
Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm
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A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative, original thinkers in the world today. Journal of Recreational Mathematics Pickover just seems to exist in more dimensions than the rest of us. -- Ian Stewart Scientific American Clifford Pickover is many things--scientist, scholar, author, editor, and visionary... Games It is a safe bet to conjecture that this is the best recreational mathematics book that will be published in this year... Pickover writes with his usual style and straightforward simplicity in this book. The material is presented well and can be understood by anyone with a basic middle school mathematics background. This is a cool book! -- Charles Ashbacker Journal of Recreational Mathematics Through accessible and readable prose and through detailed, highquality line illustrations, Pickover ably transports the general reader from culturally embedded traditional topics to a new and surprising frontier. -- Harold Don Allen Mathematics Teacher Pickover writes about his subject with contagious enthusiasm and comprehensive erudition. Choice A splendid recreational book... An extremely alluring page-turner. -- Andrew Bremner Notices of the American Mathematical Society --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative, original thinkers in the world today.
(Journal of Recreational Mathematics )

Pickover just seems to exist in more dimensions than the rest of us.
(Ian Stewart Scientific American )

Clifford Pickover is many things--scientist, scholar, author, editor, and visionary. . . .
(Games )

It is a safe bet to conjecture that this is the best recreational mathematics book that will be published in this year. . . . Pickover writes with his usual style and straightforward simplicity in this book. The material is presented well and can be understood by anyone with a basic middle school mathematics background. This is a cool book!
(Charles Ashbacker Journal of Recreational Mathematics )

Through accessible and readable prose and through detailed, highquality line illustrations, Pickover ably transports the general reader from culturally embedded traditional topics to a new and surprising frontier.
(Harold Don Allen Mathematics Teacher )

Pickover writes about his subject with contagious enthusiasm and comprehensive erudition.
(Choice )

A splendid recreational book. . . . An extremely alluring page-turner.
(Andrew Bremner Notices of the American Mathematical Society )

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