WHERE literacy meets numeracy, enthusiasm meets scepticism and philosophy meets fun, there you find Martin Gardner. He earned his crust by writing, but his abiding interest was in maths, and his gift, ...

Juggling, knitting and solving the Rubik’s cube – Robert P Crease reports on highlights from the 13th “G4G” conference in honour of mathematics popularizer Martin Gardner Simplifying the complex: some ...

Michele Norris talks to Dana Richards, professor of computer science at George Mason University, about the legacy of Martin Gardner. Gardner, who died over the weekend at the age of 95, wrote the ...

Legendary puzzle inventor and columnist Martin Gardner passed away at the age of 95 late last month. Ever since he created the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American in 1956, he's been the ...

Martin Gardner, for 25 years the master of matters mathematical for Scientific American’s “Mathematical Games” column and later the punisher of the paranormal and the pseudoscientific in his column ...

Martin Gardner is fond of quoting the following from Isaac Newton: "I don't know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and ...

Martin Gardner's achievements left a lasting impact; the genius and skeptical giant influenced countless lives through his brain teasers. I am very sad to write that Martin Gardner, a skeptical giant ...

While living at Norman's Rivermont community in his later years, acclaimed writer Martin Gardner regularly entertained accomplished visitors from the world of science and mathematics. His neighbors ...

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Martin Gardner was of the great intellects of our time, writing engagingly and wittily on a remarkably wide range of subjects. His main interests were philosophy and religion, and especially the ...

Martin Gardner took his last math class in high school. Yet the mathematical puzzles with which he teased readers of Scientific American for 25 years were so popular that in 1982, three prominent ...

Martin Gardner, who died on May 22 aged 95, infused his writings on mathematics and science with the concept of fun, but achieved wider renown with his deconstructions of the Victorian fantasies of ...