BL: The Night is Large (Gardner, Martin)
Martin Gardner, The Night is Large
St, Martin's (1996) ISBN: 0-312-16949-3
Score: 2
Collection of essays originally published between 1938 and 1995, including several chapters from his The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener. The back cover blurb calls this "the definitive work" collecting his "most significant essays", but I'd be surprised if Gardner himself would apply that term to some of the contents (like his movie review of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"), especially since it doesn't contain any of the mathematics articles he is most famous for. But there's still a lot of interesting and thought-provoking discussions in these 47 essays, most of which revolve around how different people approach the unknown and unknowable.
St, Martin's (1996) ISBN: 0-312-16949-3
Score: 2
Collection of essays originally published between 1938 and 1995, including several chapters from his The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener. The back cover blurb calls this "the definitive work" collecting his "most significant essays", but I'd be surprised if Gardner himself would apply that term to some of the contents (like his movie review of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"), especially since it doesn't contain any of the mathematics articles he is most famous for. But there's still a lot of interesting and thought-provoking discussions in these 47 essays, most of which revolve around how different people approach the unknown and unknowable.