The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995
by Martin Gardner
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The seven-decade-long sweep of Martin Gardner's career is one of the most extraordinary in the history of twentieth-century thought. A gentle muse, Gardner began publishing articles on philosophy, literature, science, and mathematics in the late 1930s, while at the University of Chicago. He has since become one of America's most prolific and accomplished writers, tackling seemingly unanswerable questions from quantum physics to the existence of God. The fourty-seven essays in The Night Is show more Large have been culled by Gardner from the broad scope of his career, and form the most ambitious collection he has ever attempted. Ranging from philosophy to religion, mathematics to pseudoscience, these challenging, coruscating musings - each with a new introduction - represent Gardner at his skeptical best. His crowning achievement and a work of profound significance, The Night Is Large places Martin Gardner at the heart of American intellectual culture. show lessTags
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The range of essays in this book lends a great deal of interest, as they span much of the career of the last of the great polymaths. As usual in an essay collection, there are dead spots, but Gardner writes with lively, accessible prose that can really tickle when it's on the mark.
Gardner was always interesting for the way he explained concepts.
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Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. (Publisher Provided)
Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Blurbers
- Chomsky, Noam; Sagan, Carl; Gould, Stephen Jay; Smullyan, Raymond; Clarke, Arthur C.; Kanfer, Stefan
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 814.54 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American essays in English 20th Century 1945-1999
- LCC
- PS3557 .A714 .A6 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Individual authors 1961-
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- Languages
- English
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- ISBNs
- 4
