Martin Gardner writes short stories with the same masterful charm, wit and philosophical brio that have made his science and mathematical puzzle books so popular with his readers.
These tales of fantasy, humor, the bohemian life, topological wizardry and mystery were selected from a lifetime of writing for magazines like Esquire and The London Mystery Magazine. We meet the "No-Sided Professor", Dr. Stanislaw Slapernarski, who by means of a kind of mathematical yoga blips himself and his nemesis into another dimension; and Bill Ramsey, who is "One More Martini" comes almost too close to fulfilling an explosive fantasy with his third-grade teacher. In "At the Feet of Karl Klodhopper", Gardner tells an engrossing story of lust and murder in the art world; this story, which reveals Gardner's astonishingly wide range of intellectual insight and cultural acumen, is a memorably hilarious and fervent critique of dogmas that can be so life-denying they can kill. These and other entertaining stories and poems make The No-Sided Professor delightful reading.
Martin Gardner is the author of many books on myriad subjects, including Science: Good, Bad and Bogus, The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix and the Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?