Martin Gardner’s 100th Birthday
October 21, 2014 — Ed Pegg Jr, Editor, Wolfram Demonstrations Project
For today’s magic show: A century ago, Martin Gardner was born in Oklahoma. He philosophized for his diploma. He wrote on Hex and Tic-Tac-Toe. The Icosian game and polyomino. Flexagons from paper trim, Samuel Loyd, the game of Nim. Digital roots and Soma stairs, mazes, logic, magic squares. Squaring squares, the golden Phi. Solved the spider and the fly. |
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Worlds most informational poem ever :)
(from a technical point of view that is)
What a brilliant, yet whimsical, way to memorialize Gardner’s legacy!
I’ve subscribed to Scientific American for decades, and I always looked forward to finding out what mathemagical topic he would explore next. I miss him.
I’m sure Martin Gardner would have been a bit embarrassed by any fuss made on his account, but his Scientific American columns surely turned many a clever student towards a mathematical career, and for that, as well as the sheer entertainment values of his columns, the mathematical world owes him much. (While the poetry isn’t John Donne, it certainly suggest the breadth of his mathematical writings. Well done.)
One of the ever biggest mathematician. He made so many puzzles for the common man to enjoy the maths with fun filled simple methods