Martin Gardner (1914–2010)
Autor/a de The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions
Sobre l'autor
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)
Nota de desambiguació:
(eng) Martin F. Gardner, the author of Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile, is a different author.
Crèdit de la imatge: Martin Gardner, Mathematician
Sèrie
Obres de Martin Gardner
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other… (2003) 201 exemplars
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings: Third Revised Edition (1990) 150 exemplars
The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays (1996) 135 exemplars
When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That (2009) 112 exemplars
Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman (1998) 106 exemplars
Fractal Music, Hypercards and More...: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American Magazine (1991) 102 exemplars
Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll and Reversi (New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library) (2003) 73 exemplars
From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr. : On Science, Literature, and Religion (2000) 38 exemplars
Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging (The New Martin Gardner… (2014) 22 exemplars
The No-Sided Professor and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy (1987) 22 exemplars
The numerology of Dr. Matrix;: The fabulous feats and adventures in number theory, sleight of word, and numerological… (1967) 21 exemplars
The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy: The Rise and Fall of Christian Science (1993) 15 exemplars
A Gathering of Gardner: Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments/Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers and the… (1988) 12 exemplars
Enigmi e giochi matematici: volume quarto 8 exemplars
How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (1989) 8 exemplars
Impromptu 5 exemplars
science puzzlers 4 exemplars
Thang [short fiction] 4 exemplars
Over the Coffee Cups 4 exemplars
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles) by Gardner. Martin ( 2003 ) Paperback 3 exemplars
Mental games 3 exemplars
Show di magia matematica 3 exemplars
No-Sided Professor [short fiction] 3 exemplars
Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Volume 1 2 exemplars
The Island of the Five Colors [short fiction] 2 exemplars
The Devil And The Trombone 2 exemplars
Martin Gardner Impromptu 2 exemplars
Oom 2 exemplars
Confessioni di un medium 2 exemplars
¡Ajá' Paradojas que hacen pensar 1 exemplars
Come buttarsi dalla torre di Hanoi 1 exemplars
Matem©Łtica, magia e mist©♭rio 1 exemplars
La ciencia 1 exemplars
Relativitet for millioner 1 exemplars
Left or Right? [short fiction] 1 exemplars
Martin Gardner Presents - Deluxe Edition 1 exemplars
Curious Problems & Puzzles 1 exemplars
As últimas recreações 1 exemplars
Perplexing Puzzles And Tantalizing Tease 1 exemplars
Science Fiction Puzzle Tails 1 exemplars
Fads & Fallacies In The Name Of Science (Formerly Published Under The Title: In The Name Of Science) 1 exemplars
DIVERTIMENTOS MATEMÁTICOS 1 exemplars
Encylopedia of Impromptu Magic 1 exemplars
Perplexing and Tantalizing Teasers 1 exemplars
MISTERE TE MAGJISE MATEMATIKE 1 exemplars
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales 1 exemplars
Martin Gardner Présente Tome2 1 exemplars
Martin Gardner Présente Tome1 1 exemplars
ESPERIENZA A-AH , SFIDE MATEMATICHE 1 exemplars
Puzzles Old & New 1 exemplars
Martin Gardneer Presents 1 exemplars
Есть идея! 1 exemplars
Математические досуги 1 exemplars
ISAAC ASIMOV´S.- Revista ciencia ficción nº11. Índice: Barry B. Longyear: "La segunda ley",… (1981) 1 exemplars
AHA Gotcha! A Two Volume Collection 1 exemplars
Mathematische Hexereien : Denksportaufgaben, Kunststücke, Rätsel, Spiele, mathemat. Zauberei 1 exemplars
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles 1 exemplars
Математические новеллы 1 exemplars
Children's Digest July Issue 1953 1 exemplars
Envelope with Information about "Free Inquiry" 1 exemplars
Mathematical Tricks with Special Equipment 1 exemplars
Cut the Cards 1 exemplars
Stranger Than Fact Volume II, No. I Summer, 1964 Manifesto of the Institute of General Eclectics 1 exemplars
The Worm Runner's Digest (Article by Martin Gardner - Manifesto of the Institute of General Eclectics) 1 exemplars
The Tokyo Puzzles - Kobon Fujimura 1 exemplars
Che cos' la relativit 1 exemplars
Children's Digest January 1953 1 exemplars
'Abstract adventuring' in The New Criterion 28, June 2010 [review of Amir Alexander's 'Duel at Dawn'] 1 exemplars
The Arrow Book of Tongue Twisters 1 exemplars
VISUAL BRAINSTORMS 2 1 exemplars
Het mathematische carnaval gezellige getallen, magische figuren en wiskundige spelletjes 1 exemplars
The Night Is Large& Vitality 1 exemplars
Mit dem Fahrstuhl in die 4. Dimension. Mathematische Rätsel, Paradoxien und neue logische Probleme 1 exemplars
The Gardner-Smith Correspondence 1 exemplars
Children's Digest December 1952 1 exemplars
Children's Digest March 1952 1 exemplars
LO QUE VERDADERAMENTE DIJO EINSTEIN 1 exemplars
ÄLYNIEKKA 1 exemplars
Izquierda y derecha en el cosmos 1 exemplars
4. 1 exemplars
L' incredibile dottor Matrix: predizioni, magie, coincidenze nel mondo della numerologia 1 exemplars
A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper 1 exemplars
Paradojas que hacen pensar 1 exemplars
The Secret of Cooking fo Dogs 1 exemplars
American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum 1 exemplars
The Magic and Mystery of Numbers 1 exemplars
ENIGMI E GIOCHI MATEMATICI VOL. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 1 exemplars
Mother Goose Mystery Direct Mental Magic 1 exemplars
Magic for the Elementary Science Class 1 exemplars
Gardner's Passe-Passe Sponge Trick 1 exemplars
Gardner's Triple Spell Miracle 1 exemplars
Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd Volume 3 1 exemplars
Мартин Гарднер - 17 книг 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Alícia al país de les meravelles, i, A través de l'espill (1865) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 25,307 exemplars
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (1989) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 3,133 exemplars
Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888 (1888) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 1,423 exemplars
The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (150th Deluxe Anniversary Edition) (The Annotated Books) (2015) — Editor — 279 exemplars
Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams (1992) — Pròleg, algunes edicions — 238 exemplars
More Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (1990) — Editor — 234 exemplars
The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories (1997) — Editor, algunes edicions — 218 exemplars
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks (2011) — Pròleg — 148 exemplars
Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (2007) — Col·laborador — 48 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 1 [January 1984] (1984) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Beware familiar spirits (The Scribner library ; 860) (1938) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 18 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 6 [June 1984] (1984) — Col·laborador — 18 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 8 [August 1982] (1982) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 5 [May 1985] (1985) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 7 [July 1982] (1982) — Col·laborador — 16 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 10 [October 1985] (1985) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 10 [October 1986] (1986) — Col·laborador — 14 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 12 [December 1985] (1905) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 1 [January 1985] (1985) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 7, No. 11 [November 1983] (1979) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 7, No. 4 [April 1983] (1983) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 5 [May 1986] (1986) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Science Fiction Omnibus: The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, 1950 (1952) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 7, No. 2 [February 1983] (1983) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 8 [August 1986] (1986) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 3 [March 1985] (1985) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 2 [February 1982] (1982) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Mr. Belloc Objects and Still Objects to "The Outline of History" (2008) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 1 exemplars
Humpty Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children #243, December 1976 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1914-10-21
- Data de defunció
- 2010-05-22
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Norman, Oklahoma, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA - Educació
- University of Chicago (B.A. | Philosophy | 1936)
- Professions
- science writer
author - Organitzacions
- CSICOP: Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Humpty Dumpty
Scientific American
Skeptical Inquirer
United States Navy - Premis i honors
- Carl B. Allendoerfer Award (1990)
Trevor Evans Award (1998)
George Pólya Award (2000) - Biografia breu
- 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) - Nota de desambiguació
- Martin F. Gardner, the author of Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile, is a different author.
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- Obres
- 238
- També de
- 81
- Membres
- 14,146
- Popularitat
- #1,629
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 135
- ISBN
- 460
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 48
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.… (més)