Martin Gardner (1914–2010)
Autor de Acertijos Matemáticos
Sobre El Autor
Martin Gardner is the author of more than seventy books on a vast range of topics including "Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?", "Calculus Made Easy", & "The Annotated Alice". He lives in Hendersonville, North Carolina. (Publisher Provided)
Nota de desambiguación:
(eng) Martin F. Gardner, the author of Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile, is a different author.
Créditos de la imagen: Martin Gardner, Mathematician
Series
Obras de Martin Gardner
Izquierda y derecha en el cosmos, simetría y asimetría frente a la teoría de la inversión… (1964) 353 copias
Festival magico-matematico / Magic-Mathematical Festival (El Libro De Bolsillo (Lb)) (Spanish Edition) (1977) 237 copias
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other… (2003) 201 copias
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings: Third Revised Edition (1990) 152 copias
The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays (1996) 136 copias
When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That (2009) 113 copias
Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman (1998) 106 copias
Fractal Music, Hypercards and More...: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American Magazine (1991) 103 copias
Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll and Reversi (New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library) (2003) 74 copias
From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr. : On Science, Literature, and Religion (2000) 38 copias
Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging (The New Martin Gardner… (2014) 22 copias
The numerology of Dr. Matrix;: The fabulous feats and adventures in number theory, sleight of word, and numerological… (1967) 21 copias
A Gathering of Gardner: Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments/Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers and the… (1988) 12 copias
How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (1989) 9 copias
Impromptu 6 copias
Over the Coffee Cups 4 copias
science puzzlers 4 copias
Thang [short fiction] 4 copias
Show di magia matematica 3 copias
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles) by Gardner. Martin ( 2003 ) Paperback 3 copias
No-Sided Professor [short fiction] 3 copias
Mental games 3 copias
Martin Gardner Impromptu 2 copias
Oom 2 copias
Confessioni di un medium 2 copias
The Devil And The Trombone 2 copias
Fads & Fallacies In The Name Of Science (Formerly Published Under The Title: In The Name Of Science) 1 copia
¡Ajá' Paradojas que hacen pensar 1 copia
Martin Gardner Présente Tome2 1 copia
Left or Right? [short fiction] 1 copia
Relativitet for millioner 1 copia
DIVERTIMENTOS MATEMÁTICOS 1 copia
La ciencia 1 copia
Matem©Łtica, magia e mist©♭rio 1 copia
Curious Problems & Puzzles 1 copia
As últimas recreações 1 copia
Encylopedia of Impromptu Magic 1 copia
Есть идея! 1 copia
Puzzles Old & New 1 copia
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales 1 copia
Martin Gardner Présente Tome1 1 copia
Математические досуги 1 copia
ISAAC ASIMOV´S.- Revista ciencia ficción nº11. Índice: Barry B. Longyear: "La segunda ley",… (1981) 1 copia
Diagnosis using search engines 1 copia
Martin Gardneer Presents 1 copia
MISTERE TE MAGJISE MATEMATIKE 1 copia
Science Fiction Puzzle Tails 1 copia
Mathematische Hexereien : Denksportaufgaben, Kunststücke, Rätsel, Spiele, mathemat. Zauberei 1 copia
Che cos' la relativit 1 copia
Children's Digest January 1953 1 copia
Children's Digest December 1952 1 copia
Cut the Cards 1 copia
Stranger Than Fact Volume II, No. I Summer, 1964 Manifesto of the Institute of General Eclectics 1 copia
VISUAL BRAINSTORMS 2 1 copia
Mit dem Fahrstuhl in die 4. Dimension. Mathematische Rätsel, Paradoxien und neue logische Probleme 1 copia
The Gardner-Smith Correspondence 1 copia
Children's Digest March 1952 1 copia
The Secret of Cooking fo Dogs 1 copia
Математические новеллы 1 copia
ÄLYNIEKKA 1 copia
Izquierda y derecha en el cosmos 1 copia
4. 1 copia
A Skeptical Look at Karl Popper 1 copia
Paradojas que hacen pensar 1 copia
The Magic and Mystery of Numbers 1 copia
Gardner's Triple Spell Miracle 1 copia
Мартин Гарднер - 17 книг 1 copia
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The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (150th Deluxe Anniversary Edition) (The Annotated Books) (2015) — Editor — 284 copias
Alicia en el país de las adivinanzas : un cuento al estilo de Lewis Carroll para niños menores de ochenta… (1982) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 252 copias
Wordplay: The Philosophy, Art, and Science of Ambigrams (1992) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 240 copias
More Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (1990) — Editor — 234 copias
The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories (1997) — Editor, algunas ediciones — 219 copias
Magical Mathematics: The Mathematical Ideas That Animate Great Magic Tricks (2011) — Prólogo — 149 copias
Counterpoints: 25 Years of The New Criterion on Culture and the Arts (2007) — Contribuidor — 48 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 1 [January 1984] (1984) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
Beware familiar spirits (The Scribner library ; 860) (1938) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 18 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 8, No. 6 [June 1984] (1984) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 2, No. 2 [March-April 1978] (1978) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 8 [August 1982] (1982) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 7 [July 1982] (1982) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 10 [October 1985] (1985) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 10 [October 1986] (1986) — Contribuidor — 14 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 12 [December 1985] (1905) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 1 [January 1985] (1985) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 7, No. 4 [April 1983] (1983) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 7, No. 11 [November 1983] (1979) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 5 [May 1986] (1986) — Contribuidor — 12 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 3 [March 1985] (1985) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Science Fiction Omnibus: The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1949, 1950 (1952) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 10, No. 8 [August 1986] (1986) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 7, No. 2 [February 1983] (1983) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 2 [February 1982] (1982) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
Humpty Dumpty's Magazine for Little Children #243, December 1976 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Mr. Belloc Objects and Still Objects to "The Outline of History" (2008) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1914-10-21
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2010-05-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- EE.UU.
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Norman, Oklahoma, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA
New York, New York, USA
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, USA - Educación
- University of Chicago (B.A. | Philosophy | 1936)
- Ocupaciones
- science writer
author - Organizaciones
- CSICOP: Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
Humpty Dumpty
Scientific American
Skeptical Inquirer
United States Navy - Premios y honores
- Carl B. Allendoerfer Award (1990)
Trevor Evans Award (1998)
George Pólya Award (2000) - Biografía breve
- Martin Gardner was born on October 21 1914 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of a geologist who started a small oil business and became a wildcatter. As a child Martin enjoyed magic tricks and playing chess. After graduating from high school in 1932, he earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Chicago, having also studied history, literature and the sciences under the intellectually-stimulating Great Books curriculum.
Although brought up a devout Methodist, he lost his Christian faith as a result of his wide reading, a transition he covered in a semi-autobiographical novel The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973).
In 1937 Gardner returned to Oklahoma, taking a reporter's job on the Tulsa Tribune, and after a spell in public relations back at the University of Chicago, in 1942 joined the US Naval Reserve as a yeoman in the destroyer escort USS Pope. On night watch, he dreamed up plots for stories, which he sold to Esquire magazine. After the war he became a freelance writer, and in the 1950s wrote features for Humpty Dumpty's Magazine and other children's periodicals.
In 1956 he sold an article to Scientific American magazine and followed this up with an essay about hexaflexagons – hexagons made from strips of paper that show different faces when flexed in different ways. This so impressed the publisher that Gardner was invited to produce a regular column along similar lines. Since he had not studied mathematics after high school, Gardner plundered second-hand bookshops in Manhattan to find enough material to sustain his "Mathematical Games" column. In the event it ran for 25 years and earned Gardner the American Mathematical Society's prize for mathematical exposition.
His lack of scholarly expertise meant that instead of relying on academic jargon, Gardner packed his prose with cross-cultural references, jokes and anecdotes, giving the column the broadest-possible appeal. He introduced his readers to riddles, paradoxes, enigmas and even magic tricks, as well as concepts such as fractals and Chinese tangram puzzles, redefining the concept of "recreational mathematics".
Gardner also became known as a sceptic of the paranormal, and wrote works debunking public figures such as the psychic Uri Geller, who gained fame for claiming to bend spoons with his mind. In his first book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1952), Gardner exposed such quackery as flat-earth cults, alien abductions and a belief in UFOs. The book has since become a classic; the novelist Kingsley Amis, an early fan, regretted not stealing a copy when he had had the chance.
In 1976, with Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov and others, Gardner co-founded the Committee for the Scientific Evaluation of Claims of the Paranormal, and wrote regularly for its magazine, the Skeptical Inquirer. Its most recent issue includes a feature he wrote on Oprah Winfrey's New Age interests.
In more than 70 books, Gardner produced lay guides to Einstein's Theory of Relativity; ambidexterity and physical symmetry; the bath plug vortex (the phenomenon by which bathwater in the northern hemisphere drains in an anticlockwise direction and clockwise in the southern hemisphere); and even the concept of God. He also published fiction, poetry and literary and film criticism as well as puzzle books.
In The Numerology of Dr Matrix (1967) Gardner investigated links between numerals and the occult, asking (for example) what is special about the number 8,549,176,320? (A: It is the 10 natural integers arranged in the order of the English alphabet.)
His many admirers instituted a regular convention of Gardner followers, known as "Gatherings for Gardner" (G4G), which attracted magicians, puzzle fans and mathematicians from all over the world.
Although Gardner attended these as guest of honour, as a matter of course he avoided conferences, meetings and parties, and despite his facility as a polymath never owned a computer or used email. He preferred to work standing up, and, while magic and conjuring tricks remained his principal hobby, was also an accomplished exponent of the musical saw.
Martin Gardner married, in 1952, Charlotte Greenwald, who predeceased him in 2000. Their two sons survive him.
(The Telegraph: Martin Gardner, 7:14PM BST 25 May 2010) - Aviso de desambiguación
- Martin F. Gardner, the author of Threatened Plants of Central and South Chile, is a different author.
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