Martinus Gardner

Martinus Gardner (21 Octobris 1914 – 22 Maii 2010) fuit Americanus polymathes et scriptor de mathematica et scientia cui res propria fuit mathematica oblectationis, sed ipse ad artem magicam, artem micromagicam, pseudoscientiam, litteras (praecipue scripta Ludovici Carroll), philosophiam, scepticismum scientificum, et religionem saepe animadvertit. "Mathematical Games" conficiebat, columnam in Scientific American ab anno 1956 ad 1981, et plusquam septuaginta libros divulgavit.

Opera

Libri

• 1952. In the Name of Science. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
• 1956. Mathematics, Magic and Mystery. Dover. ISBN 0-486-20335-2.
• 1957. Science Puzzlers. The Viking Press, Scholastic Book Services.
• 1957. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover. ISBN 0-486-20394-8 (expansion of In the Name of Science).
• 1957. Great Essays in Science (editor). Prometheus Books Reprint edition 1994. ISBN 0-87975-853-8.
• 1957. The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was (cum Russel B. Nye). Michigan State University Press. Retractatus 1994.
• 1958. Logic Machines and Diagrams. Novi Eboraci: McGraw-Hill.
• 1960. The Annotated Alice Novi Eboraci: Bramhall House Clarkson Potter. Lib of Congress #60-7341. Nullum ISBN.
• 1962. The Annotated Snark. Novi Eboraci: Simon & Schuster. (Unabridged Hunting of the snark with introduction and extensive notes from Gardner). 1998 reprint, Penguin Classics. ISBN 0-14-043491-7.
• 1962. Relativity for the Million. Novi Eboraci: MacMillan Company. Retractatus anno 1976 nomine The Relativity Explosion. Novi Eboraci: Vintage Books. Iterum retractatus et amplificatus anno 1996 nomine Relativity Simply Explained. Novi Eboraci: Dover. ISBN 0-486-29315-7.
• 1964. The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds (Revised ed., 1990 as The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings; 3rd ed., 2005, Dover; ISBN 0-486-44244-6)
• 1965. The Annotated Ancient Mariner New York: Clarkson Potter, Reprint. Prometheus. ISBN 1-59102-125-1
• 1967. Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey New York: Clarkson Potter. Reprint. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. ISBN 0-226-28263-5 Reprint. New York: Dover, 1995. ISBN 0-486-28598-7
• 1973. The Flight of Peter Fromm, Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc. Prometheus Books; Reprint edition (1994) ISBN 0-87975-911-9
• 1975. Mathematical Carnival: A New Round-up of Tantalizers and Puzzles from "Scientific American." Knopf Publishing Group. ISBN 0-394-49406-7.
• 1976. The Incredible Dr. Matrix, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons; ISBN 0-684-14669-X
• 1978. Aha! Insight. W. H. Freeman & Company. ISBN 0-7167-1017-X.
• 1981. Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-573-3 paperback, ISBN 0-87975-144-4 (hardback), ISBN 0-380-61754-4 Avon pocket paperback.
• 1981. Entertaining Science Experiments With Everyday Objects. Dover. ISBN 0-486-24201-3.
• 1982. Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight. Tools for Transformation. W.H. Freeman & Company. ISBN 0-7167-1361-6.
• 1983. The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener. Iterum divulgatum anno 1999. St. Martin's Griffin. ISBN 0-312-20682-8.
• 1983. Order and Surprise. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-219-X.
• 1984. Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Test Your Code-Breaking Skills). Dover. ISBN 0-486-24761-9.
• 1985. Magic Numbers of Dr Matrix. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-282-3.
• 1986. Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles. Dover. ISBN 0-486-25211-6.
• 1987. The No-Sided Professor and other tales of fantasy, humor, mystery, and philosophy. Prometheus Books. ISBN 0-87975-390-0.
• 1987. The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown. Oxoniae: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-217748-6. Notae de fabulis a G. K. Chesterton scriptis.
• 1987. Riddles of the Sphinx. Mathematical Association of America. ISBN 0-88385-632-8. (collection of articles from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
• 1987 Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments, W.H. Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1925-8
• 1988 Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers, Dover; ISBN 0-486-25637-5
• 1988 New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-432-X (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns)
• 1990 More Annotated Alice, Random House; ISBN 0-394-58571-2 (a "supplement" to The Annotated Alice)
• 1991 The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions, University Of Chicago Press; Reprint edition; ISBN 0-226-28256-2
• 1991 The Annotated Night Before Christmas: A Collection Of Sequels, Parodies, And Imitations Of Clement Moore's Immortal Ballad About Santa Claus Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Martin Gardner, Summit Books (Reprinted, Prometheus Books, 1995); ISBN 0-671-70839-2
• 1991 Fractal Music, Hypercards and More; W. H. Freeman
• 1992 On the Wild Side, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-713-2 (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns)
• 1993 The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy, Prometheus Books,
• 1994 My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles, Dover; ISBN 0-486-28152-3
• 1995 Classic Brainteasers, Sterling Publishing; ISBN 0-8069-1261-8
• 1995 Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-955-0
• 1996 Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher, Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-096-7 (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns)
• 1997 The Night Is Large : Collected Essays, 1938-1995, St. Martin's Griffin; ISBN 0-312-16949-3
• 1998 Calculus Made Easy, St. Martin's Press; Revised edition ISBN 0-312-18548-0 (Revisions and additions to the 1910 calculus textbook by Silvanus P. Thompson.)
• 1998 Martin Gardner's Table Magic, Dover; ISBN 0-486-40403-X
• 1998 Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner, Dover; ISBN 0-486-40089-1 - This book, edited by David A. Klamer, was the tribute of the mathematical community to Gardner when he retired from writing his Scientific American column in 1981. (The Dover edition is a reprint of the original, titled The Mathematical Gardner, published by Wadsworth.) Discreetly assembled for the occasion, the stature of the mathematicians submitting papers is a testament to Gardner's importance.
• 1999 Gardner's Whys & Wherefores Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-744-9
• 1999 The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition ; W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04847-0
• 1999 The Annotated Thursday: G. K. Chesterton's Masterpiece, the Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton, Edited by Martin Gardner.
• 2000 From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr. : On Science, Literature, and Religion, Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-852-6
• 2000 The Annotated Wizard of Oz, New York: W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04992-2 (introduction)
• 2001 A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit ISBN 1-56881-120-9
• 2001 Mathematical Puzzle Tales; Mathematical Association of America ISBN 0-88385-533-X (collection of articles from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
• 2001 Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-32238-6 (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns)
• 2002 Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-925-5
• 2003 Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics, ISBN 0-393-05742-9 (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns and others)
• 2004 Smart Science Tricks, Sterling; ISBN 1-4027-0910-2
• 2007 The Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings—both Serious and Whimsical, Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-59102-565-6
• 2008 Bamboozlers: The Book of Bankable Bar Betchas, Brain Bogglers, Belly Busters & Bewitchery by Diamond Jim Tyler, Diamond Jim Productions; ISBN 0-9676018-1-9 (introduction)
• 2009 When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish and other Speculations about This and That, Hill and Wang; ISBN 0-8090-8737-5.

Conlectae Scientific American columnae

Quindecim libri—qui Don Knuth appellat "the Canon"—amplectuntur Martini Gardner columnas primum in Scientific American editas:

• Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games 1959; University of Chicago Press 1988 ISBN 0-226-28254-6 (originally published as The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions)
• The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions 1961; University of Chicago Press 1987; ISBN 0-226-28253-8
• Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American 1966; Simon and Schuster; reprinted by Mathematical Association of America 1995
• Numerology of Dr. Matrix 1967; reprinted/expanded as The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix; Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-281-5 / ISBN 0-87975-282-3
• Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions Simon & Schuster 1968; reprinted by University of Chicago Press, 1991 ISBN 0-671-20073-9
• The Sixth Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions Simon & Schuster 1971
• Mathematical Carnival Vintage 1975; reprinted by Mathematical Association of America
• Mathematical Magic Show Vintage 1977; reprinted by Mathematical Association of America
• Mathematical Circus Vintage 1979; reprinted by Mathematical Association of America
• Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements 1983; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1589-9
• Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments 1986; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1799-9
• Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments 1988; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1925-8
• Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers 1989; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1987-8; reprinted by Mathematical Association of America
• Fractal Music, Hypercards and More 1991; W. H. Freeman
• Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications 1997; Springer Verlag; ISBN 0-387-94929-1

Item: tres alii libri:

• The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems 2001; W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-02023-1 (a "best of" collection)
• Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games 2005; Mathematical Association of America; ISBN 0-88385-545-3 (CD-ROM of all fifteen books above, encompassing all articles in the column)
• The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems 2006; W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-06114-0

Nexus externi

Verba quae insequuntur vicificanda sunt ut rationibus qualitatis et Latinitatis propositis obtemperent. Quaesumus emenda.

Vicicitatio habet citationes quae ad Martinus Gardner spectant.

• Laudatio in Scientific American: Profile of Martin Gardner
• 1998 interview with Gardner by Kendrick Frazier for the Skeptical Inquirer
• 2004 interview with Gardner (PDF) by Allyn Jackson for the AMS Notices
• The Martin Gardner Interview (2005) - Cambridge University Press blog - Part 1
• The Martin Gardner Interview (2005) - Cambridge University Press blog - Part 2
• The Martin Gardner Interview (2005) - Cambridge University Press blog - Part 3
• The Martin Gardner Interview (2005) - Cambridge University Press blog - Part 4
• The Martin Gardner Interview (2005) - Cambridge University Press blog - Part 5
• 2006 interview with Gardner by Colm Mulcahy for the MAA Online website
• James Randi's notes on Gardner, written in the 1960s
• A short Martin Gardner Bio
• About Gathering for Gardner
• (2587) Gardner asteroid
• On-line Gardner bibliography
• Gardner, Martin. "David Bohm and J. Krishnamurti", Skeptical Inquirer, July 2000.
• Gathering for Gardner conference site, G4G, includes downloadable Gardner tribute e-book (The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler)
• The lives and games of Martin Gardner, Numericana, 2009.

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