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Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was 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 ...
In a publishing career spanning 80 years (1930–2010), popular mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner (1914–2010) authored or edited over 100 books and countless articles, columns and reviews. All Gardner's works were non-fiction except for two novels – The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973) and Visitors from Oz (1998) – and two collections of short pieces – The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (1967, 1985) and The No-Sided Professor (1987).
Martin Gardner has 545 books on Goodreads with 1064269 ratings. Martin Gardner’s most popular book is Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular ...
Martin Gardner centennial. Testimonials. Who was Martin Gardner? First and last, he was a skeptic, who was most well known as a scientific American, writer and annotator.This mere mortal was a mathematician, magician & mysterian, who turned out to be a big inspiration to several generations of people all over the world. To some, Martin was the best friend mathematics ever had, and to others he was one of the most influential magicians of the last century. He's universally acknowledged as the ...
Martin Gardner centennial. Image: Bruce Torrence (2010) "More people have probably learned more good mathematical ideas from Gardner than from any other person in the history of the world"—Donald Knuth Martin often related how he had never taken calculus or any college level mathematics course, or indeed any mathematics after leaving high school in 1932.
Gardner's column in Scientific American attracted enough attention that Scientific American offered him the opportunity to write a "Mathematical Games" column on a regular basis. Starting with the January 1957 issue of the magazine, Martin Gardner began a 25-year run of writing columns for Scientific American.These columns eventually were collected into many books that were a great source of interesting mathematics for many mathematicians, not to mention the general public.
May 23, 2010 · Editor's note: In light of the recent death of Martin Gardner, we are republishing this profile from the December 1995 issue of Scientific American.. The clerk at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in ...
May 24, 2010 · Editor's Note: Douglas Hofstadter gave permission to Scientific American to post this essay in light of the death of Martin Gardner, who wrote the magazine's "Mathematical Games" column for 25 ...
Oct 20, 2009 · Martin Gardner is the world’s best-known recreational mathematician, and has probably introduced more people to the joys of math than anyone in history.
Oct 1, 2013 · In 1956 Martin Gardner invented the perfect job for himself: writing a monthly column called Mathematical Games in the pages of Scientific American.Then he invented the Martin Gardner who could do ...
