Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambl...(展开全部)

Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambl...(展开全部)

Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of nuclear weapons, military power is not so much exercised as threatened. It is, Mr. Schelling says, bargaining power, and the exploitation of this power, for good or evil, to preserve peace or to threaten war, is diplomacy - th...(展开全部)

Jack Williamson的Humanoids科幻小说系列科普： * ①、中短篇<With Folded Hands ...>，首次发表于John W. Campbell, Jr.主编的著名科幻杂志<Astounding Science Fiction>1947年7月刊，与②a的标题是合成标题； * ②a、长篇连载<... And Searching Mind>，首次发表于杂志<Astounding Science Fiction>1948年3月、4月和5月刊，与①的标题是合成标题； * ②b、<... And Searching Mind>以单行本发行，长篇小说标题<The Humanoids>，由Simon & Schuster出版社于1949年首次出版发行，由福建少年儿童出版社于1992年2月出版发行中译本《机器服务人》； * ③、因①和②...(展开全部)

In this brief, elegant treatise, accessible to anyone who likes to think, Ivar Ekeland explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics.

In this brief, elegant treatise, accessible to anyone who likes to think, Ivar Ekeland explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics.