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Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
by Martin Gardner
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 067121425X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671214258
- Seller
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Nashua, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
Trade paperback edition, published by Simon & Schuster, 1969. A collection of Gardner's 'Mathematical Game's columns from Scientific American magazine. This is the fifth collection in the series. Included are the Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging, The Transcendental Number e, and puzzles on chess, string, tiles, matches, geometry and lots more! 255 pages with Bibliography, 5-1/4" X 8-1/2". This is a remainder copy with a single black swipe mark to the bottom edge of the text block near the spine. No former ownership marks, and most important for a puzzle book - no writing on the text pages! Edges of the text block are clean, besides that remainder mark. Binding is tight. There is a crease mark to the top left corner of the back cover, a diagonal crease at the top left corner. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.
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- Bookseller
- Hopkins Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22-05304
- Title
- Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
- Author
- Martin Gardner
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 067121425X
- ISBN 13
- 9780671214258
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1969
- Bookseller catalogs
- Puzzles-Games;
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Remainder Mark
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Remainder
- Book(s) which are sold at a very deep discount to alleviate publisher overstock. Often, though not always, they have a remainder...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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