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When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That

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“Martin Gardner is indispensable. Here’s the perfect introduction to the range of his obsessions—from Ann Coulter to The Wizard of Oz.” —William Poundstone, bestselling author of Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?

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.

“When you figure out the answer [to one of Gardner’s puzzles], you know you’ve found something that is indisputably true anywhere, anytime. For a brief moment, the universe makes perfect sense.” —John Tierney, The New York Times

“Smart, witty essays on science and culture.” —Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times

“A more than worthwhile introduction to one of the most underappreciated polymaths of the last fifty years.” —Christopher Vola, The Brooklyn Rail

© 2025 Hill and Wang (E-bog): 9781429935548

Udgivelsesdato

E-bog: 16. april 2025

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