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Win a New Martin Gardner Book #3
Welcome back! Go to the current contest here >> The entries are really coming in. Thanks to everyone for entering! Also, check out the interview with Gardner that I’ll be posting over the next...
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The Martin Gardner Interview
Three years ago, Martin Gardner‘s good friend, MAA Editorial Director Don Albers, interviewed him at length about his childhood, the roots of his fascination with math, and about his career. Over the...
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The Martin Gardner Interview Part 2
Continuing from last week, we’ll continue with Don Albers‘ 2004 interview with Martin Gardner right where we left off: Navy Service DA: In December of 1941, the U.S. entered World War II and you...
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The Martin Gardner Interview Part 3
Continuing from last Thursday – Don Albers’ long interview with math puzzle legend Martin Gardner. Yes, he once edited a magazine for girls. Newcomers: start from the beginning here >> Humpty...
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The Martin Gardner Interview Part 4
This continues Don Albers’ long interview of Gardner from last week. Or, start from the beginning. Adam, Eve, and Navels DA: In 1979, you talked about retiring from Scientific American that year,...
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The Martin Gardner Interview – Part 5
This 5th and final installment in Don Albers’ long interview with Martin Gardner clarifies his philosophical theism, tackles pseudoscience, and glimpses what he’s up to now. Remember, he’s still at it....
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Martin Gardner Documentary
What a great find! We’ve had a lot of fun with the new Martin Gardner books around here, but I always find that there is more to discover about him. David Suzuki’s The Nature of Things featured an...
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Happy Birthday, Martin Gardner!
Yesterday’s New York Times featured John Tierney’s profile the great math puzzlist Martin Gardner for his 95th birthday, which is today. For today’s mathematical puzzle, assume that in the year 1956...
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Most Eminent Man of Letters and Numbers
In his review of Gardner’s latest works for the Washington Post, Michael Dirda gives a charming rundown of Gardner’s long, involved, illustrious career of being the most math-savvy non-mathematician...
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Remembering Martin Gardner, Mathematical Magician
“I’m strictly a journalist.” – Martin Gardner Martin Gardner had no formal mathematical training. A newspaper reporter, publicist, freelancer for Esquire, caseworker, magician, skeptic, Navy sailor,...
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Win a New Martin Gardner Book #5
For this week’s contest, click here! Hello, Leiter Reports! I’m very glad that I have a couple philosophy degrees, because the conditional logic that you guys threw my way … well, wasn’t too...
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Win a New Martin Gardner Book #6
Last chance! You guys rock–it makes me sad that I don’t have enough spare copies to give to the great entries I’ve been getting. I will be back momentarily with this week’s puzzle. First: Four bugs...
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Win a New Martin Gardner Book – Final Award
Thanks for all the fun entries! The past few weeks have been entertaining, to say the least. I saved one of my favorites, and one of the more tricky problems, for last. It’s not the simplest to set up...
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