Martin+Gardner

was an American polymath, [|recreational mathematics] and science writer, and author of the [|Mathematical Games column] in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981. He was inventor of various games such as [|5×5 Minichess], which was recently weakly solved by Frédéric Prost and Mehdi Mhalla , 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. Due to his publications, Gardner popularized countless [|mathematical games] and [|puzzles], notably the game of Hex and Conway's [|Game of Life]. || toc =Selected Publications=
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 * [[image:Martin_Gardner.jpg link="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martin_Gardner.jpeg"]] ||~ ||**Martin Gardner**, (October 21, 1914 - May 22, 2010)
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1950 ...
> Martin Gardner (**1959**). //The Game of Hex//. pages 73-83 » Hex
 * 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]

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].

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
 * 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]

=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

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