My dad had two of Gardner's books. I loved puzzling over them as a kid - enough that I bought my own copies for my kids to discover. I credit those books with much of my interest in logic.
Gardner's puzzles always had a beautiful simplicity to them. The solutions are sometimes fiendishly hard, but the problem is always accessible to the layman - no great grasp of mathematics is needed, just the ability to think logically and rigorously.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 25.4 ms ] threadGardner's puzzles always had a beautiful simplicity to them. The solutions are sometimes fiendishly hard, but the problem is always accessible to the layman - no great grasp of mathematics is needed, just the ability to think logically and rigorously.
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