Martin Gardner (1914–2010)
Auteur van The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions
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Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. (Publisher Provided)
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(eng) Martin F. Gardner, the author of Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile, is a different author.
Fotografie: Martin Gardner, Mathematician
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Werken van Martin Gardner
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other… (2003) 201 exemplaren
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings: Third Revised Edition (1990) 152 exemplaren
The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays (1996) 136 exemplaren
When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That (2009) 113 exemplaren
Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman (1998) 106 exemplaren
Fractal Music, Hypercards and More...: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American Magazine (1991) 103 exemplaren
Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll and Reversi (New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library) (2003) 74 exemplaren
From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr. : On Science, Literature, and Religion (2000) 38 exemplaren
The No-Sided Professor and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy (1987) 22 exemplaren
Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging (The New Martin Gardner… (2014) 22 exemplaren
The numerology of Dr. Matrix;: The fabulous feats and adventures in number theory, sleight of word, and numerological… (1967) 21 exemplaren
The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy: The Rise and Fall of Christian Science (1993) 15 exemplaren
A Gathering of Gardner: Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments/Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers and the… (1988) 12 exemplaren
How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (1989) 9 exemplaren
Enigmi e giochi matematici: volume quarto 8 exemplaren
Impromptu 6 exemplaren
Thang [short fiction] 4 exemplaren
Over the Coffee Cups 4 exemplaren
science puzzlers 4 exemplaren
Mental games 3 exemplaren
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles) by Gardner. Martin ( 2003 ) Paperback 3 exemplaren
Show di magia matematica 3 exemplaren
No-Sided Professor [short fiction] 3 exemplaren
Bacons Geheimnis. Die Wurzeln des Zufalls und andere numerische Merkwürdigkeiten (1992) 3 exemplaren
The Island of the Five Colors [short fiction] 2 exemplaren
Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science. The Curious Theories of Modern Pseudoscientits and the Strange, Amusing and… 2 exemplaren
Maths: Revision Guide (Letts Key Stage 2 Success) 2 exemplaren
Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Volume 1 2 exemplaren
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles 2 exemplaren
Martin Gardner Impromptu 2 exemplaren
The Devil And The Trombone 2 exemplaren
Oom 2 exemplaren
Confessioni di un medium 2 exemplaren
Martin Gardneer Presents 1 exemplaar
Fads & Fallacies In The Name Of Science (Formerly Published Under The Title: In The Name Of Science) 1 exemplaar
¡Ajá' Paradojas que hacen pensar 1 exemplaar
Come buttarsi dalla torre di Hanoi 1 exemplaar
Encylopedia of Impromptu Magic 1 exemplaar
'Abstract adventuring' in The New Criterion 28, June 2010 [review of Amir Alexander's 'Duel at Dawn'] 1 exemplaar
Left or Right? [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
Martin Gardner Presents - Deluxe Edition 1 exemplaar
Relativitet for millioner 1 exemplaar
As últimas recreações 1 exemplaar
La ciencia 1 exemplaar
Matem©Łtica, magia e mist©♭rio 1 exemplaar
Curious Problems & Puzzles 1 exemplaar
Математические досуги 1 exemplaar
AHA Gotcha! A Two Volume Collection 1 exemplaar
Perplexing and Tantalizing Teasers 1 exemplaar
MISTERE TE MAGJISE MATEMATIKE 1 exemplaar
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales 1 exemplaar
DIVERTIMENTOS MATEMÁTICOS 1 exemplaar
Martin Gardner Présente Tome2 1 exemplaar
Martin Gardner Présente Tome1 1 exemplaar
ESPERIENZA A-AH , SFIDE MATEMATICHE 1 exemplaar
Puzzles Old & New 1 exemplaar
Есть идея! 1 exemplaar
Science Fiction Puzzle Tails 1 exemplaar
ISAAC ASIMOV´S.- Revista ciencia ficción nº11. Índice: Barry B. Longyear: "La segunda ley",… (1981) 1 exemplaar
Confessioni di un medium quaderni di magia 1 1 exemplaar
The Gardner-Smith Correspondence 1 exemplaar
Mit dem Fahrstuhl in die 4. Dimension. Mathematische Rätsel, Paradoxien und neue logische Probleme 1 exemplaar
Perplexing Puzzles And Tantalizing Tease 1 exemplaar
The Secret of Cooking fo Dogs 1 exemplaar
The Tokyo Puzzles - Kobon Fujimura 1 exemplaar
Children's Digest March 1952 1 exemplaar
Children's Digest January 1953 1 exemplaar
Children's Digest December 1952 1 exemplaar
Children's Digest July Issue 1953 1 exemplaar
Envelope with Information about "Free Inquiry" 1 exemplaar
Mathematical Tricks with Special Equipment 1 exemplaar
Cut the Cards 1 exemplaar
Stranger Than Fact Volume II, No. I Summer, 1964 Manifesto of the Institute of General Eclectics 1 exemplaar
The Worm Runner's Digest (Article by Martin Gardner - Manifesto of the Institute of General Eclectics) 1 exemplaar
Che cos' la relativit 1 exemplaar
Het mathematische carnaval gezellige getallen, magische figuren en wiskundige spelletjes 1 exemplaar
VISUAL BRAINSTORMS 2 1 exemplaar
The Arrow Book of Tongue Twisters 1 exemplaar
Mathematische Hexereien : Denksportaufgaben, Kunststücke, Rätsel, Spiele, mathemat. Zauberei 1 exemplaar
Математические новеллы 1 exemplaar
LO QUE VERDADERAMENTE DIJO EINSTEIN 1 exemplaar
ÄLYNIEKKA 1 exemplaar
Izquierda y derecha en el cosmos 1 exemplaar
4. 1 exemplaar
L' incredibile dottor Matrix: predizioni, magie, coincidenze nel mondo della numerologia 1 exemplaar
A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper 1 exemplaar
Paradojas que hacen pensar 1 exemplaar
American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum 1 exemplaar
The Magic and Mystery of Numbers 1 exemplaar
ENIGMI E GIOCHI MATEMATICI VOL. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 1 exemplaar
Mother Goose Mystery Direct Mental Magic 1 exemplaar
Magic for the Elementary Science Class 1 exemplaar
Gardner's Passe-Passe Sponge Trick 1 exemplaar
Gardner's Triple Spell Miracle 1 exemplaar
Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Volume 3 1 exemplaar
Мартин Гарднер - 17 книг 1 exemplaar
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Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA - Opleiding
- University of Chicago (B.A. | Philosophy | 1936)
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- Carl B. Allendoerfer Award (1990)
Trevor Evans Award (1998)
George Pólya Award (2000) - Korte biografie
- Martin Gardner was born on October 21 1914 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of a geologist who started a small oil business and became a wildcatter. As a child Martin enjoyed magic tricks and playing chess. After graduating from high school in 1932, he earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, having also studied history, literature and the sciences under the intellectually-stimulating Great Books curriculum.
Although brought up a devout Methodist, he lost his Christian faith as a result of his wide reading, a transition he covered in a semi-autobiographical novel The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973).
In 1937 Gardner returned to Oklahoma, taking a reporter's job on the Tulsa Tribune, and after a spell in public relations back at the University of Chicago, in 1942 joined the US Naval Reserve as a yeoman in the destroyer escort USS Pope. On night watch, he dreamed up plots for stories, which he sold to Esquire magazine. After the war he became a freelance writer, and in the 1950s wrote features for Humpty Dumpty's Magazine and other children's periodicals.
In 1956 he sold an article to Scientific American magazine and followed this up with an essay about hexaflexagons – hexagons made from strips of paper that show different faces when flexed in different ways. This so impressed the publisher that Gardner was invited to produce a regular column along similar lines. Since he had not studied mathematics after high school, Gardner plundered second-hand bookshops in Manhattan to find enough material to sustain his "Mathematical Games" column. In the event it ran for 25 years and earned Gardner the American Mathematical Society's prize for mathematical exposition.
His lack of scholarly expertise meant that instead of relying on academic jargon, Gardner packed his prose with cross-cultural references, jokes and anecdotes, giving the column the broadest-possible appeal. He introduced his readers to riddles, paradoxes, enigmas and even magic tricks, as well as concepts such as fractals and Chinese tangram puzzles, redefining the concept of "recreational mathematics".
Gardner also became known as a sceptic of the paranormal, and wrote works debunking public figures such as the psychic Uri Geller, who gained fame for claiming to bend spoons with his mind. In his first book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1952), Gardner exposed such quackery as flat-earth cults, alien abductions and a belief in UFOs. The book has since become a classic; the novelist Kingsley Amis, an early fan, regretted not stealing a copy when he had had the chance.
In 1976, with Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov and others, Gardner co-founded the Committee for the Scientific Evaluation of Claims of the Paranormal, and wrote regularly for its magazine, the Skeptical Inquirer. Its most recent issue includes a feature he wrote on Oprah Winfrey's New Age interests.
In more than 70 books, Gardner produced lay guides to Einstein's Theory of Relativity; ambidexterity and physical symmetry; the bath plug vortex (the phenomenon by which bathwater in the northern hemisphere drains in an anticlockwise direction and clockwise in the southern hemisphere); and even the concept of God. He also published fiction, poetry and literary and film criticism as well as puzzle books.
In The Numerology of Dr Matrix (1967) Gardner investigated links between numerals and the occult, asking (for example) what is special about the number 8,549,176,320? (A: It is the 10 natural integers arranged in the order of the English alphabet.)
His many admirers instituted a regular convention of Gardner followers, known as "Gatherings for Gardner" (G4G), which attracted magicians, puzzle fans and mathematicians from all over the world.
Although Gardner attended these as guest of honour, as a matter of course he avoided conferences, meetings and parties, and despite his facility as a polymath never owned a computer or used email. He preferred to work standing up, and, while magic and conjuring tricks remained his principal hobby, was also an accomplished exponent of the musical saw.
Martin Gardner married, in 1952, Charlotte Greenwald, who predeceased him in 2000. Their two sons survive him.
(The Telegraph: Martin Gardner, 7:14PM BST 25 May 2010) - Ontwarringsbericht
- Martin F. Gardner, the author of Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile, is a different author.
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I've adored Martin Gardner since I first picked up "The Annotated Alice", and he was a one-of-a-kind historian, raconteur, critic, and general pioneer of common sense and rational thinking. I was also amazed, given he was very old at the time of writing this book, to think that he had it in him.
Instead, what I soon learned was that this book was clearly put together from essays, reviews, articles, and other miscellanea previously written. Which is fine, in and of itself. Malcolm Gladwell does the same thing. However in this case, most of these articles just don't work in this context.
Take, for instance, his chapter on the possibilities of extinction by meteor -- it falls off into a film critique of two Hollywood blockbusters! And not even a critique of the science, just of his dislike for the films in general! These may have worked in a weekly newspaper column or some such, but don't have the coherence and sting to be a major chapter in a book. By a similar notion, some of the articles that debunk or analyse heavy physics do so without providing enough information to the layman. Evidently they were first written for scientific magazines that catered to a more niche crowd.
Some chapters, even worse, don't "debunk" at all, as the title claims. Gardner just explains the issue at heart, and then maybe gives a brief precis of why people do it. His chapter on cult suicides is admittedly a tough example, since explaining that kind of situation is a complex debate. However, Gardner neither explains nor debunks. He effectively just recounts what happens, without looking at the science or psychology of cult worship and leadership, nor really debunking (beyond the obvious "it's ridiculous) the theories those people held.
I won't hold this against the memory of the late Mr. Gardner, since he was a remarkable man. But this book shouldn't have seen the light of day.… (meer)