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Martin Gardner. 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.
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.
May 23, 2010 · For 25 years, he wrote Scientific American's Mathematical Games column, educating and entertaining minds and launching the careers of generations of mathematicians.
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...
May 24, 2010 · If nothing else, reading Martin Gardner should convince you that the human mind's pathways of finding truths are as diverse and unpredictable as the pathways of evolution itself.
"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.
May 24, 2010 · Martin Gardner, who teased brains with math puzzles in Scientific American for a quarter-century and who indulged his own restless curiosity by writing more than 70 books on topics as...
From keen magician to world-renowned author. Martin's first publication was a magic trick for the Sphinx in May 1930. He was fifteen years old, and went on to publish for a further 80 years, in a bewildering breadth of fields.
Oct 20, 2014 · The maths writer Martin Gardner, who died in 2010, is said to have turned dozens of innocent youngsters into professors - and vice-versa.
Perhaps no one has done more to make the world aware of mathematics than Martin Gardner. Who was Martin Gardner? Martin Gardner was born October 21, 1914 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. and died on May 22, 2010 not that far from where he was born, in Norman, Oklahoma.
