Introducing robots, bacteriophages, toroids, and Omniscient Rational Advance Calculators
of Local Events in a thoroughly delightful and perplexing collection of science fiction
puzzle tales. Mathematical wizard Martin Gardner, the much-celebrated author of the
“Mathematical Games” column in Scientific American, has devised thirty-six stories, each
containing challenging problems based on geometry, logarithms, topology, probability
weird number sequences, logic, and virtually every other aspect of mathematics as well as
wordplay.