WHERE literacy meets numeracy, enthusiasm meets scepticism and philosophy meets fun, there you find Martin Gardner. He earned his crust by writing, but his abiding interest was in maths, and his gift, ...
Juggling, knitting and solving the Rubik’s cube – Robert P Crease reports on highlights from the 13th “G4G” conference in honour of mathematics popularizer Martin Gardner Simplifying the complex: some ...
Legendary puzzle inventor and columnist Martin Gardner passed away at the age of 95 late last month. Ever since he created the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American in 1956, he's been the ...
Martin Gardner, for 25 years the master of matters mathematical for Scientific American’s “Mathematical Games” column and later the punisher of the paranormal and the pseudoscientific in his column ...
Michele Norris talks to Dana Richards, professor of computer science at George Mason University, about the legacy of Martin Gardner. Gardner, who died over the weekend at the age of 95, wrote the ...
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 diverse as magic ...
Prolific mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner, known for popularizing recreational mathematics and debunking paranormal claims, died Saturday. He was 95. Gardner died Saturday after a brief ...
If you grew up, as I did, devouring every puzzle book you could get your hands on, you probably owe at least a little of your geekiness to Martin Gardner. His ability to craft unusual and interesting ...
Martin Gardner, AB'36, a writer on wide-ranging subjects who achieved some of his greatest renown as author of the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American, died May 22 in Norman, Okla., at ...
Martin Gardner is, to put it as broadly as possible, a professional smart person. His job, as a columnist for Scientific American and the author of dozens of books, is to write about complicated ideas ...
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 diverse as magic ...