Martin Gardner is dead

The author of that phenomenally influential Mathematical Games column in Scientific American (if you are of a certain age you will remember it well), Martin Gardner, has died at the age of 95.

95 is a very interesting number, but then one of the things we learned from Gardner is that they all are.

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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.
... (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.