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I learned all my interesting math from Martin Gardner ...

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By gregladen on May 22, 2010.

... (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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