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Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. 96 pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear. Includes Introduction. Also includes chapters on Easy Transposition Ciphers; Easy Substitution Ciphers; How to Break Substitution Ciphers; Hard-to-break Polyalphabetic Ciphers; Simple Code Machines; Invisible Writing; Bizarre Methods of Message Sending; and Codes for Other Worlds. Also contains References for Further Reading. Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 - May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature-especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and was regarded as one of the most important magicians of the twentieth century. He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books. Gardner was best known for creating and sustaining interest in recreational mathematics-and by extension, mathematics in general-throughout the latter half of the 20th century, principally through his "Mathematical Games" columns. These appeared for twenty-five years in Scientific American, and his subsequent books collecting them. The main purpose of this book is to teach readers how to use the most important codes, and other methods of secret communication that have been invented since ancient times. A selected list of references at the end of the book will provide more reading material about the unusual techniques that have been employed for making ciphers, and for breaking ciphers used by others. Reprint. Originally published in New York by Simon & Schuster. Paul E. Kennedy (Cover Design) (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 313 pages illustrations 22 cm ; ISBN: 0486202909; 9780486202907 LCCN: 73-176353 ; LC: GV1445; Dewey: 794.1/2; OCLC: 235561 ; blue and white pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Translated and abridged by Alan S. Russell. ; "Every chess player hopes to set off brilliant combinations and win games in a blaze of glory. Such combinations do not come into being by themselves, however; they appear only as the result of proper chess strategy. It is therefore surprising that so few books deal with this highly important subject, and understandable that Pachman's modern classic has been so enthusiastically received by chessplayers at all levels. Ludek Pachman, a Czech grandmaster, has long had an international reputation as a chess theorist, but until now his work has not been available in English. This present volume, which condenses his great Modern Schachstrategie, presents his ideas and theories in a form that the English-speaking world can assimilate easily. Beginning with basic concepts and the rules of the minor and major pieces, it covers the use of the Queen, the active King, exchanges, various kinds of Pawns, the center and its use, superiority on the wings, minority attack, strategical points and weak squares, methods of attack and defense, and similar topics. Pachman elaborates the various kinds of strategy that can be employed, and shows how each leads to tactical opportunities. It has been said that his section on the Rook alone make his book indispensable to the serious chess player, since the Rook is so important in both middle and endgames. Pachman presents his method in the form of a thorough, systematic, analytical text, which draws upon scores of great games for exemplification. Both classical and very recent masters are included, although stress is on the moderns: Capablanca, Alekhine, Dr. Lasker, Rubinstein, Nimzovich, Botvinnik, Reshevsky, Bronstein, Smyslov, and Spasski." ; store stamp ; title page upper corner-clipped ; else VG. Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 5th printing; 189 pp. ; photographs ; featuring the work of John B. Skupen, Joseph A. Phetteplace, Mary Bowling, Henry & Carol Green, Josephine Roberts, Geraldine Schidlowski, Olive M. Colhour, Richard Porter, James Feese, Claire Kenned y, Donal Hord, E. B. Bomar, Virgil R. Ruddick, Gordon S. Kennedy, Kazanjian, Paul A. Broste, Leo J. Houlihan, O. C. Barnes, and others ; no dustjacket, else VG. Book. …