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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. [4] [5] He was a leading authority on ...
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.
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.
Oct 1, 2014 · In what would be his centennial year, Martin Gardner, the longtime author of Scientific American's celebrated Mathematical Games column, continues to inspire mathematicians and puzzle lovers. By...
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.
Martin Gardner—Mathematician. 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 ...
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.
Martin Gardner Biography. Martin Gardner lived a very long and extremely productive life. Born on 21 Oct 1914 in Tulsa, OK, USA, he earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago (1936), served four years (1942–1946) in the Navy, and then moved to New York City, where he married Charlotte Greenwald in 1952, and had two sons, Jim ...
Martin Gardner had a playful streak and often had columns which had whimsical goals. In his Scientific American column of April 1975 he showed a plane map which purportedly required 5 colors to color the faces.
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...
