Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, "Mathematical Games" (Scientific American column), The Annotated Alice, The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, The Ambidextrous Universe
Notable awards
Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (1987)[1] George Pólya Award (1999)[2][3] Allendoerfer Award (1990) Trevor Evans Award (1998)
Spouse
Charlotte Greenwald
(m. 1952)
Children
2
Signature
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 Lewis Carroll;[6]The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies.[7] He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century".[8] He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers.[9] He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.[10][11]
Gardner was best known for creating and sustaining interest in recreational mathematics—and by extension, mathematics in general—throughout the latter half of the 20th century, principally through his "Mathematical Games" columns.[12][13] These appeared for twenty-five years in Scientific American, and his subsequent books collecting them.[14][15]
Gardner was one of the foremost anti-pseudoscience polemicists of the 20th century.[16] His 1957 book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science[17] is a seminal work of the skeptical movement.[18] In 1976, he joined with fellow skeptics to found CSICOP, an organization promoting scientific inquiry and the use of reason in examining extraordinary claims.[19]
He was a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.[20]
^Cite error: The named reference allyn_jackson was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^"MAA Writing Awards Presented" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 47 (10): 1282. November 2000. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 12, 2014.
^Gardner, Martin (January 1999). "The Asymmetric Propeller" (PDF). The College Mathematics Journal. 30 (1): 18–22. doi:10.2307/2687198. JSTOR 2687198. Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2014.
^Martin (2010)
^Singmaster, D. (2010) "Obituary: Martin Gardner (1914–2010)" Nature465(7300), 884.
^Kindley (2015): When it comes to explanations of Carroll’s books, no one has yet improved on the work of Gardner.
^Martin Gardner obituary Telegraph Media Group (2010)
^Cite error: The named reference magic was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Costello (1988): p. 114.
^England (2014): Even apart from mathematics and puzzles, Gardner's output was staggering.
^"Martin Gardner dies at 95; prolific mathematics columnist for Scientific American" by Thomas H. Maugh, Los Angeles Times, May 26, 2010
^AMS Notices (2011): "Martin Gardner was a gem. There is absolutely no question that he, more than anyone else in the world, was responsible for turning people of all ages on to the pleasures of mathematical recreations." —Ronald L. Graham
^Case 2014: Gardner is credited with the rebirth of recreational mathematics in the U.S.
^Martin (2010): "His mathematical writings intrigued a generation of mathematicians."
^Bellos (2010): "He became a kind of father figure to a generation of young mathematicians, who corresponded with him. Such was Gardner's influence between the late 1950s and 1980s that it would be hard to find a professional mathematician from those years who does not cite him as an inspiration."
^"Martin Gardner – Mathematician". Martin Gardner Home Site. Gathering 4 Gardner. 2014. Archived from the original on November 18, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
^originally published in 1952 as In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present
^Shermer, Michael (2001). The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense. Oxford University Press. p. 50. Retrieved May 20, 2016. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science [is] still in print and arguably the skeptic classic of the past half-century.
^"About CSI". Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Archived from the original on November 12, 2016. Retrieved October 28, 2016.
^Reviews by and about Martin Gardner The New York Review of Books: 1973 to 1998
MartinGardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic...
science writer MartinGardner (1914–2010) authored or edited over 100 books and countless articles, columns and reviews. All Gardner's works were non-fiction...
Scientific American columnist MartinGardner and was an important member of the gifted and diverse group of people that Gardner nurtured and acted as a conduit...
Over a period of 24 years (January 1957 – December 1980), MartinGardner wrote 288 consecutive monthly "Mathematical Games" columns for Scientific American...
pie-eating contest. Conway's career was intertwined with that of MartinGardner. When Gardner featured Conway's Game of Life in his Mathematical Games column...
writer MartinGardner. G4G organizes conferences where people who have been inspired by or have a strong personal connection to MartinGardner can meet...
1981 and Feb. 1982). On the Wild Side (1992), MartinGardner, pp. 18–19 On the Wild Side, 1992, MartinGardner. Press, Frank; Siever, Raymond; Grotzinger...
standards for proof regarding the study of anomalies and the paranormal. MartinGardner wrote: "In recent years he (Truzzi) has become a personal friend of...
republished in The New MartinGardner Mathematical Library as Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi. In this, Gardner traces the history...
Heidi Lynn Gardner (born July 27, 1983) is an American actress, comedian, and writer. Gardner has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday...
regarded as politically, religiously, and personally conservative. MartinGardner labels Dodgson as a Tory who was "awed by lords and inclined to be snobbish...
Puzzle Araucaria David J. Bodycombe Emily Cox Henry Dudeney Tony Fisher MartinGardner Scott Kim Lloyd King Sam Loyd Uwe Mèffert Larry D. Nichols Henry Rathvon...
about the Rhine case in Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, MartinGardner explained that he did not think the experimenters had made such obvious...
and Carroll's commentary is given in the book The Annotated Alice by MartinGardner. In 1868 Carroll asked his publishers, Macmillan, "Have you any means...
order to prevent undesirable future veneration or reverence for him. MartinGardner claims that an explanation concerning the origin of the book more plausible...
devised by mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963 and popularized in MartinGardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American a short time later...
authors have included many famous mathematicians and scientists such as MartinGardner, John Conway, Roger Penrose, Ian Stewart, Timothy Gowers, Stephen Hawking...
The three prisoners problem appeared in MartinGardner's "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American in 1959. It is mathematically equivalent to...
1981 to be named first-team All-Pro. Gardner was born on August 31, 2000, in Detroit, Michigan. He attended Martin Luther King Jr. Senior High School,...
Irish mathematicians and also the works of iconic mathematics writer MartinGardner. He has blogged for the Mathematical Association of America, The Huffington...