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The No-Sided Professor and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy

por Martin Gardner

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Here is Martin Gardner's first collection of short stories. Culled from fiction written over the years for such magazines as Esquire and the London Mystery Magazine, The No-Sided Professor is proof that Gardner's expertise does not stop at his scientific and mathematical works. Only Gardner can infuse short stories with the same masterful charm, wit, and philosophical brio that have brought him legions of fans through his mathematical-puzzle books and investigations into science and pseudoscience. Gardner introduces us to the "No-Sided Professor," Dr. Stanislaw Slapenarski, who by means of a kind of mathematical yoga blips himself and his nemesis into another dimension. In "At the Feet of Karl Klodhopper," Gardner tells an engrossing story of lust and murder in the art world. These and other stories reveal Gardner's astonishingly wide range of intellectual insight and cultural acumen. The No-Sided Professor is full of tales of fantasy, humor, the bohemian life, topological wizardry, and mystery. All are stamped with the unmistakable seal of a master storyteller.… (más)
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Nella sterminata produzione di Martin Gardner c'è anche della narrativa. Non molta, scritta per la maggior parte tra la fine della seconda guerra mondiale e l'inizio degli anni '60, ma c'è. Gardner stesso ne raccolse la maggior parte in questo libro. Diciamocelo: non avrebbe mai vinto il Nobel per la letteratura. Le storie hanno una buona proprietà di linguaggio, sicuramente migliore di quelle di Asimov che notoriamente era piatto; però sono troppo precisine per scaldare il cuore. È insomma la solita maledizione dello scrittore scientifico: ottimi saggi, ma scarsa narrativa. Non è un caso che il racconto giallo anti-psi Mysterious Smith non fosse stato mai pubblicato, perché rifiutato dalle riviste del campo... Ci sono però alcuni racconti che meritano: la storia che dà il titolo alla raccolta, che tra l'altro mostra come Gardner fosse interessato alla matematica già prima di dedicarsi anima e corpo alla rubrica di giochi matematici sullo Scientific American; The Loves of Lady Coldpence, racconto sull'editoria che potrebbe essere riciclato anche oggi da qualcuno che non apprezza il movimento open source perché lo vede come una catena di montaggio; The Virgin from Kalamazoo, divertente applicazione "al contrario" del telefono senza fili; e Merlina and the Coloured Ice, nulla di che come trama ma che mi ha non so come colpito. Un libro per completisti, direi. ( )
  .mau. | Feb 16, 2017 |
A collection of short stories by the well-known skeptic. As is often the case in such collections, the stories are spotty. There are some that are absolutely wonderful; others, rather mediocre. The story of the title deals with the phenomenon known as the Moebius strip, and in this story, as in all of the stories, Gardner weaves a heavy dose of science and philosophy through the plot. This is one reason why several of the stories are mediocre; his explanations of the material would play better in non-fiction than in fiction, and some of his convolutions get in the way of the plot (though they are probably necessary, which might indicate that fiction is not the best way to approach an idea that requires that sort of dryness of explanation). Overall, a pleasant read, though not up to the usual standards of the author. ( )
  Devil_llama | Jul 11, 2012 |
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Here is Martin Gardner's first collection of short stories. Culled from fiction written over the years for such magazines as Esquire and the London Mystery Magazine, The No-Sided Professor is proof that Gardner's expertise does not stop at his scientific and mathematical works. Only Gardner can infuse short stories with the same masterful charm, wit, and philosophical brio that have brought him legions of fans through his mathematical-puzzle books and investigations into science and pseudoscience. Gardner introduces us to the "No-Sided Professor," Dr. Stanislaw Slapenarski, who by means of a kind of mathematical yoga blips himself and his nemesis into another dimension. In "At the Feet of Karl Klodhopper," Gardner tells an engrossing story of lust and murder in the art world. These and other stories reveal Gardner's astonishingly wide range of intellectual insight and cultural acumen. The No-Sided Professor is full of tales of fantasy, humor, the bohemian life, topological wizardry, and mystery. All are stamped with the unmistakable seal of a master storyteller.

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