... (and one other guy). And Gardner died on Saturday.
He was born in October 1914. So that made him ...
Do the math.
Here is a sampling of his works. He published dozens of books, IIRC, so this is a very loose sample.
- Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games
- When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That
- Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi: Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions (The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library)
- Entertaining Science Experiments with Everyday Objects
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
- Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
- Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Test Your Code Breaking Skills)
- Relativity Simply Explained
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Martin Gardner, polymath, puzzle-master, and philosopher, died on Sunday at the age of 95.
Martin Gardner has passed away at age 95.
I will be leaving for Atlanta, GA tomorrow to participate in the Ninth Gathering for Gardner. That's Martin Gardner, of course. I will be giving a short talk about the Monty Hall problem on Thursday morning, and then it will be three days of math, magic and other cool things.