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 [1] [2]. He was inventor of various games such as 5×5 Minichess, which was recently weakly solved by Frédéric Prost and Mehdi Mhalla [3] [4], 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 [5]. Due to his publications, Gardner popularized countless mathematical games and puzzles, notably the game of Hex [6] and Conway's Game of Life [7].
Martin Gardner [8]

Selected Publications

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