Gardner, Martin

Martin Gardner was born and raised in the vicinity of Tulsa , Oklahoma , USA . He attended college at the University of Chicago , where he received a bachelor 's degree in philosophy ^[3] . During World War II, he served for several years in the US Navy as a ship secretary, or , aboard the USS Pope, an escort destroyer in the Atlantic Ocean. His ship was in the ocean at the time of the end of the war and the surrender of Japan in August 1945 .

After the war, Gardner again visited the University of Chicago ^[4] . During the year he also studied at the magistracy, but did not defend the next degree.

For several decades, Martin, with his wife Charlotte and two sons, lived in Hastings-on-Hudson , earning a living by literary work, publishing his books in a number of publishing houses and writing hundreds of articles for various magazines and newspapers. Interestingly, they lived on Euclid Avenue. In 1979, the couple moved to Hendersonville (North Carolina . His wife died in 2000 .

In the early 1950s, Gardner was the editor of Humpty Dumpty and wrote essays and stories for several children's magazines ^[5] . His paper folding tasks led to his work at Scientific American ^[6] .

In 2002, Martin Gardner returned to Norman (Oklahoma) , where his son, James Gardner, worked as a professor of education at the University of Oklahoma ^[7] .

Martin Gardner died on May 22, 2010 in Norman. ^[2]

He was a leader in the section of mathematical games and entertainment of Scientific American magazine, in which the Life game, invented by John Conway , was presented to the general public, as well as many other interesting games, tasks, and puzzles.

Gardner's articles and books on entertaining mathematics are particularly popular. Gardner interpreted entertainment as a synonym for fascinating, interesting in cognition, but alien to idle entertainment.

Also known as the author of several science fiction stories (“The Island of Five Colors”, “Zero-Sided Professor”), commentator Lewis Carroll (“ Alice in Wonderland ”, “ Alice in the Looking Glass ” and “ Hunting the Snark ”) and Gilbert Chesterton (“The Man, which was Thursday ”and“ Ignorance of Father Brown ”).

Among Gardner's works there are philosophical essays, essays on the history of mathematics, mathematical tricks and "comics", popular science sketches, science fiction stories, tasks on quick wits.

Gardner's style is characterized by lucidity, brightness, persuasiveness of presentation, brilliance, paradox of thought, novelty and depth of scientific ideas, many of which are gleaned from modern scientific publications and, in turn, have become an incentive for serious research, active involvement of the reader in independent creativity.

Original Books

• 1952 In the Name of Science GP 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 (development of the book In the Name of Science )
• 1957 Great Essays in Science (editor); Prometheus Books (reprinted in 1994) ISBN 0-87975-853-8
• 1957 The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was . (with Russel B. Nye) Michigan State University Press. Reprinted in 1994.
• 1958 Logic Machines and Diagrams . Mcgraw-hill new york
• 1960 The Annotated Alice New York: Bramhall House Clarkson Potter. Lib of Congress # 60-7341 (no ISBN)
• 1962 The Annotated Snark New York: Simon & Schuster. (The full version of Snark Hunt with an introduction and extensive comments from Gardner). In 1998 reprint, Penguin Classics; ISBN 0-14-043491-7
• 1962 Relativity for the Million New York: MacMillan Company (op). Reprinted and updated in 1976 as The Relativity Explosion New York: Vintage Books. Reprinted and expanded in 1996 as Relativity Simply Explained New York: Dover; ISBN 0-486-29315-7
• 1964 The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds (Reprinted in 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 , WH 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 (hardcover), ISBN 0-380-61754-4 (Avon pocket cover)
• 1981 Entertaining Science Experiments With Everyday Objects ; Dover; ISBN 0-486-24201-3
• 1982 Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight (Means for transformations); WH Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1361-6
• 1983 The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener , 1999 reprint 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 Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-217748-6 (Gardner's Notes on Chesterton Stories).
• 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 , WH 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 from the Notes of a Fringe Watcher)
• 1990 More Annotated Alice , Random House; ISBN 0-394-58571-2 (addition 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 (Reprint, Prometheus Books , 1995); ISBN 0-671-70839-2
• 1991 Fractal Music, Hypercards and More ; WH Freeman
• 1992 On the Wild Side , Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-713-2 (collection of notes from the Notes of a Fringe Watcher)
• 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 from the Notes of a Fringe Watcher)
• 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 (Reprints and additions to the 1910 book on higher mathematics 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 ^[8]
• 1999 Gardner's Whys & Wherefores Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-744-9
• 1999 The Annotated Alice : The Definitive Edition ; WW Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04847-0
• 1999 The Annotated Thursday: GK Chesterton's Masterpiece, the Man Who Was Thursday by GK Chesterton , ed. M. 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: WW 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 , WW Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-32238-6 (collection of notes from the Notes of a Fringe Watcher)
• 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 from Notes of a Fringe Watcher 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
• 2009 The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek , Sunday Press Books; ISBN 0-9768885-7-2 (introduction)

Scientific American

In the countries of the former USSR, Martin Gardner is best known for translating several books from the following list of books that are collections of articles from Scientific American. Donald Knuth called these 15 books "canon." In Russian, about half of them were translated and published by the Mir Publishing House:

• 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 under the title The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions )
  • Russian translation: "Mathematical puzzles and entertainment", M., 1971. Chapters 1-15
• The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions 1961; University of Chicago Press 1987; ISBN 0-226-28253-8
  • Russian translation: "Mathematical puzzles and entertainment", M., 1971. Chapters 16-34
• Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American 1966; Simon and Schuster; reprint of the Mathematical Association of America 1995
  • Russian translation:
    • "Mathematical puzzles and entertainment", M., 1971. Chapters 35-46;
    • "Mathematical leisure", M., 1972 Chapters 1-7
    • New Mathematical Entertainment - AST, 2008
• 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 . Not translated.
• Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions Simon & Schuster 1968; reprinted University of Chicago Press, 1991 ISBN 0-671-20073-9
  • "Mathematical leisure", M., 1972 Chapters 8-25
• The Sixth Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions Simon & Schuster 1971
  • Mathematical leisure, ch. 26-37
  • Mathematical short stories, ch. 1-6
• Mathematical Carnival Vintage 1975; reissue of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Mathematical short stories (separate chapters)
  • Boring Math - AST, 2009
• Mathematical Magic Show Vintage 1977; reissue of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Mathematical short stories (separate chapters)
  • 1000 educational puzzles, mathematical puzzles and puzzles for children and adults - AST, 2009
• Mathematical Circus Vintage 1979; reissue of the Mathematical Association of America
  • Mathematical short stories (separate chapters)
  • The best math games and puzzles - AST, 2008
• Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements 1983; WH Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1589-9
  • Russian translation: “Tic-tac-toe”, M., 1988;
• Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments 1986; WH Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1799-9 . Not translated.
• Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments 1988; WH Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1925-8
  • "Time Travel", M., 1990.
• Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers 1989; WH Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1987-8 ; reissue of the Mathematical Association of America
  • “From Penrose Mosaics to Strong Ciphers”
• Fractal Music, Hypercards and More 1991; WH Freeman. Not translated
• Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications 1997; Springer Verlag; ISBN 0-387-94929-1 . Not translated.

Other 3 editions (not included in the "canon"), also collecting notes by Martin Gardner from Scientific American :

• The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems 2001; WW 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 with all fifteen books of the "canon", collecting all the articles from the Gardner column in the journal)
• The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems 2006; WW Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-06114-0

Gardner's books (as well as those dedicated to Gardner) in Russian

• "This right, left world." M .. 1967;
• "Mathematical puzzles and entertainment", M., 1971;
• "Mathematical leisure", M., 1972;
• "Mathematical short stories", M., 1974;
• "Mathematical wonders and secrets." M., 1977;
• "The theory of relativity for millions", M., 1979;
• “There is an idea!”, M., 1982;
• "The Mathematical Flower Garden", M., 1983 (a collection dedicated to Martin Gardner);
• “Come on, guess!”, M .: Mir, 1984;
• "Tic-tac-toe", M., 1988;
• "Time Travel", M., 1990;
• “From Penrose Mosaics to Robust Ciphers.” M .: Mir, 1993;
• "Classic puzzles." AST, 2007;
• "The best math games and puzzles." AST, 2008;
• "New mathematical entertainment." AST, 2008;
• "Boring math." AST, 2009;
• "1000 educational puzzles, mathematical puzzles and puzzles for children and adults." AST, 2009;
• ““ When you were a fish, a tadpole - I ... ”and other thoughts about all sorts of things“, Colibri, 2010.
• "Mysteries of the Sphinx and other mathematical puzzles": URSS: LEND, 2015. - 304 p. (Series: SCIENCE - EVERYTHING! Masterpieces of popular science literature (mathematics). No. 97. ISBN 978-5-453-00104-0 .

Articles in the Russian Press

• Karpushina N. M. The same Martin Gardner: an article on the life and work of M. Gardner // Mathematics at school . - 2010. - No. 7.

• The task of the three prisoners
• Gardner Mini Chess
• The paradox of a boy and a girl

• Official site
• Gardner, Martin in the library of Maxim Moshkov , Archive of books on the site
• Gardner anthology in Russian
• List of Martin Gardner's books, originals and translations into Russian (inaccessible link - history , copy ) Retrieved June 2, 2018.