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[ Martin Gardner [1] Martin Gardner, (October 21, 1914 - May 22, 2010)

was an American polymath, recreational mathematics and science writer, and author of the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981 [2] [3]. He was inventor of various games such as 5×5 Minichess, which was recently weakly solved by Frédéric Prost and Mehdi Mhalla [4] [5], and Hexapawn, designed to demonstrate Michie’s machine learning algorithm with only 24 Matchboxes instead of 300 as required for the tic-tac-toe machine MENACE [6]. Due to his publications, Gardner popularized countless mathematical games and puzzles, notably the game of Hex [7] and Conway’s Game of Life [8].

1950 …#

• Martin Gardner (1952). In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present. Putnam, in 1957 republished as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science.
• Martin Gardner (1956). Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery. Dover Publications
• Martin Gardner (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0-486-20394-2
• Martin Gardner (1958, 1983). Logic Machines and Diagrams. McGraw-Hill, University of Chicago Press
• Martin Gardner (1959). The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. Simon & Schuster

Martin Gardner (1959). The Game of Hex. pages 73-83 » Hex

1960 …#

• Martin Gardner (1960). The Annotated Alice. Clarkson Potter
• Martin Gardner (1962, 1974). The Annotated Snark. Simon & Schuster
• Martin Gardner (1964, 1969, 1979, 1990, 2005). The Ambidextrous Universe. Penguin Books
• Martin Gardner (1967). Problems that are Built on the Knight’s Tour in Chess. Scientific American, Vol. 130
• Martin Gardner (1969, 1991). The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions. Simon & Schuster, University Of Chicago Press. [11]

1970 …#

• Martin Gardner (1970). Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway’s new solitaire game “life”. Scientific American, Vol. 223, pp. 120-123.
• Martin Gardner (1973). Mathematical Games: How to Turn a Chessboard into a Computer to Calculate with Negabinary Numbers. Scientific American, Vol. 228, No. 4 [12]
• Martin Gardner (1975). Mathematical Carnival. Vintage Books
• Martin Gardner (1977). Mathematical Magic Show. Vintage Books
• Martin Gardner (1978). Aha! Insight. W.H. Freeman & Company
• Martin Gardner (1979). Mathematical Circus . Vintage Books
• Martin Gardner (1979). Chess Problems on a Higher Plane, Including Mirror Images, Rotations and the Superqueen. Scientific American, Vol. 270

1980 …#

• Martin Gardner (1982). Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight. W.H. Freeman & Company
• Martin Gardner (1983). Baffling Brainteasers. Davis Publications

1990 …#

• Lee Sallows, Martin Gardner, Richard K. Guy, Donald Knuth (1991). Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees. Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 5
• Martin Gardner (1994). My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles. Dover Publications
• Martin Gardner (1996). The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays. Springer-Verlag
• Martin Gardner (1999). The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition. W. W. Norton & Company

2000 …#

• Martin Gardner (2001). The Colossal Book of Mathematics - : Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems . W. W. Norton & Company
• Martin Gardner (2004). Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? W. W. Norton & Company
• Martin Gardner (2006). The Annotated Hunting of the Snark. W. W. Norton & Company

2010 …#

• Martin Gardner, Ken Jennings (2010). The Colossal Book of Wordplay. Sterling Publishing, Puzzlewright Press
• Mehdi Mhalla, Frédéric Prost (2013). Gardner’s Minichess Variant is Solved. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4
• Martin Gardner (2014). Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner’s Unexpected Hanging. The Mathematical Association of America / Cambridge University Press [13]

External Links#

• Martin Gardner from Wikipedia
• List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns from Wikipedia
• Martin Gardner Home Site
• Gathering 4 Gardner Foundation | the aha moment
• The Mathematical Gardner Homepage
• Profile: Martin Gardner, the Mathematical Gamester (1914-2010) - Scientific American by Philip Yam, May 22, 2010
• Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life - Scientific American by Douglas Hofstadter, May 22, 2010

References#

1. ↑ Details: Martin Gardner, MFO Photo by Konrad Jacobs, Erlangen, Martin Gardner from Wikipedia
2. ↑ Martin Gardner from Wikipedia
3. ↑ Index to Mathematical Games
4. ↑ Mehdi Mhalla, Frédéric Prost (2013). Gardner’s Minichess Variant is Solved. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4
5. ↑ Gardner’s minichess solved by BB+, OpenChess Forum, August 29, 2013
6. ↑ Martin Gardner (1969, 1991). The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions. Simon & Schuster, University Of Chicago Press, Chapter 8: A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine
7. ↑ Martin Gardner (1959). The Game of Hex. in The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. pp 73-83. Simon & Schuster
8. ↑ Martin Gardner (1970). Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway’s new solitaire game “life”. Scientific American, Vol. 223, pp. 120-123.
9. ↑ Martin Gardner bibliography
10. ↑ Martin Gardner’s Puzzle Books
11. ↑ Unexpected hanging paradox from Wikipedia
12. ↑ Negative base from Wikipedia
13. ↑ Borromean rings from Wikipedia

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