In what would be his centennial year, Martin Gardner, the longtime author of Scientific American's celebrated Mathematical Games column, continues to inspire mathematicians and puzzle lovers Like ...

Which Switch? Brainteaser There are three on/off switches on the ground floor of a building. Only one operates a single lightbulb on the third floor. The other two switches are not connected to ...

SIMON: And how do we appreciate Martin Gardner? DEVLIN ... influences that made them do it was reading that column, "Mathematical Games," in Scientific American because it was an incredible ...

Martin Gardner was a legend. From 1956 until 1981, Gardner wrote the column "Mathematical Games" for Scientific American. And in those 25 years, he introduced readers of that magazine to all sorts ...

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 ...

Martin Gardner was of the great intellects of ... In 1956 he began to provide a monthly column for Scientific American called "Mathematical Games"; it offered puzzles, tricks and riddles, and ...

speaks with Martin Gardner, whose “Mathematical Games” column ran for 25 years in Scientific American magazine and, says Ms. Jackson, “opened the eyes of the general public to the beauty and ...

Martin Gardner was born in 1914 in Tulsa ... where he wrote his "Mathematical Games" column for 25 years. The column introduced the public to puzzles and concepts such as fractals and Chinese ...

[caption id="attachment_9212" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Martin Gardner, photographed by Konrad Jacobs"] [/caption] October 21 is the anniversary of ...