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	Martin Gardner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Martin Gardner more or less singlehandedly sustained and nurtured interest in recreational mathematics in the U.S. for a large part of the 20th century.
		Gardner's thorough research, formidable knowledge and uncompromising attitude have made him the world's foremost anti-pseudoscientific polemicist of the last half of the twentieth century.
		Among Gardner's claims are that his views are widespread among mathematicians, but Hersh has countered that in his experience as a professional mathematician and speaker, this is not the case.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Martin_Gardner (2360 words)

	Kadon Enterprises, Inc., Martin Gardner profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Martin Gardner is one of the most beloved personalities in the areas of recreational mathematics, magic and puzzles.
		Martin has inspired and enlightened three generations of readers with the delights of mathematical recreations, the amazing phenomena of numbers, magic and puzzles, the play of ideas.
		Martin Gardner was born October 21, 1914, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of a geologist and oil producer.
	www.gamepuzzles.com /martin.htm (363 words)

	Martin Gardner interview (Skeptical Inquirer, March 1998)
		Gardner: I like to think I am unduly harsh and dogmatic only when writing about a pseudoscience that is far out on the continuum that runs from good science to bad, and when I am expressing the views of all the experts in the relevant field.
		Gardner: I'm all in favor of parapsychologists continuing to look for evidence of psi, and their experiments certainly are more carefully controlled than in the days of Rhine.
		Gardner: I don't think a knowledge of magic is important in countering paranormal claims, except in connection with self-styled psychics who claim extraordinary paranormal powers.
	www.csicop.org /si/9803/gardner.html (4615 words)

	Martin Gardner Hilbert Award
		Martin Gardner is regarded by the scientific community, and the community at large, to be the master communicator of mathematics.
		This is one of Martin Gardner’s great contributions and service to the scientific community and the public at large.
		Thus Martin, on behalf of millions of grateful people around the world for “your outstanding series of books and articles which have made mathematical recreations exciting and challenging, and yet at the same time accessible, to both the scientific community and the public community in general” please accept the David Hilbert International Award.
	www.amt.canberra.edu.au /hilgard.html (318 words)

	Martin Gardner - review
		Gardner goes straight to the point: the scientists who say this have given no reason for believing that the possible worlds other than this one, useful though they may be as fictions, have real existence.
		Gardner does not agree with that, on the grounds that induction does not work in all possible worlds (as it should if it is a matter of logic).
		Gardner’s efforts against gullibility have not been in vain, and there is a sense that the miscreants are on the run.
	www.austms.org.au /Jobs/Reviews9.html (1256 words)

	Martin Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Martin Gardner books and magazine articles about mathematics and science have charmed several generations of readers into careers with a mathematical twist.
		Over a hundred magicians, mathematicians, skeptics of psychic phenomena (Gardner is a major player in the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) and other mischief makers entertained each other for several days with lectures, performances, and heated shmoozing.
		Notice that the central letter of the design is G. In the new improved version, I used an R with one vertical stroke instead of two, which shifts the visual rhythm of the lettering over by one stroke, so that G is no longer the central letter.
	www.scottkim.com /inversions/gallery/gardner.html (305 words)

	Interview with Martin Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Martin Gardner was born October 21, 1914, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
		Martin Gardner, the subject of this month’s feature interview, was photographed at his residence in Norman, Oklahoma, on March 3, 2005.
		Martin Gardner has written lots of fine books and articles on mathematical and related subjects, and he's met lots and lots of famous people, mathematicians and otherwise.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1420714/posts (9017 words)

	Professor Martin Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Professor Gardner was an Instructor at the Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington) during 1972-73 and was on the faculty of the University of Alabama School of Law from 1973-77.
		Professor Gardner was the John Sparkman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law for the Fall semester of 1986-87.
		When he is not teaching or writing, Professor Gardner finds time to work out at the gym, play clarinet in several emsembles, and serve in church callings.
	law.unl.edu /fac-gardner.html (162 words)

	Amazon.de: The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems: English Books: Martin Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gardner's array of absorbing puzzles and mind-twisting paradoxes opens mathematics up to the world at large, inspiring people to see past numbers and formulas and experience the application of mathematical principles to the mysterious world around them.
		Beginning with seemingly simple topics, Gardner expertly guides us through complicated and wondrous worlds: by way of basic algebra we contemplate the mesmerising, often hilarious, linguistic and numerical possibilities of palindromes; using simple geometry, he dissects the principles of symmetry upon which the renowned mathematical artist MC Escher constructs his unique, dizzying universe.
		With boundless wisdom and his trademark wit, Gardner allows the reader to further engage challenging topics like probability and game theory which have plagued clever gamblers, and famous mathematicians, for centuries.
	amazon.de /Colossal-Book-Mathematics-Paradoxes-Problems/dp/0393020231 (864 words)

	Amazon.com: The New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher: Books: Martin Gardner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Gardner understands the distinction perfectly, however, and never engages in ad hoc attacks on religion when his real target is an irrational right-wing religion.
		Gardner reprints many letters written to him in response to the original printing of many of the articles, and I would like to take an opportunity to quibble on one small point, though on something that he mentions several times.
		Gardner is brilliant, and his writing is compelling, extremely witty, and easy to understand.
	www.amazon.com /New-Age-Notes-Fringe-Watcher/dp/0879756446 (2294 words)

	MARTIN GARDNER BOOKS
		Martin Gardner The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy : The Rise and Fall of Christian Science
		Martin Gardner The New Ambidextrous Universe : Symmetry and Asymmetry, from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings
		Martin Gardner Flatland, Hydras, and Eggs : Mathematical Mystifications
	www.kolmogorov.com /gardner1.html (514 words)

	MathsNet Resources: Martin Gardner books
		Martin Gardner (1914 -) was the Mathematical Games columnist for Scientific American.
		Martin Gardner, debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery, explores in this title startling scientific concepts, such as the possibility of multiple universes and the theory that time can go backwards.
		Armed with his expert, sceptical eye, he examines the bizarre tangents produced by Freudians and deconstructionists in their critiques of "Little Red Riding Hood" and reveals the fallacies of pseudoscientific cures, from Doctor Bruno Bettelheim's erroneous theory of autism to the cruel farces of Facilitated Communication and Primal Scream Therapy.
	www.mathsnet.net /resource/martingardner.html (662 words)

	Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Hermits and Cranks -- Fifty years ago Martin Gardner launched the ...
		It was Gardner's first publication of a skeptical nature (he was the math games columnist for Scientific American for more than a quarter of a century).
		Martin Gardner's book In the Name of Science is the bible of the modern skeptical movement.
		Gardner recounts the day that Groucho Marx interviewed Louisiana state senator Dudley J. LeBlanc about a "miracle" cure-all vitamin-and-mineral tonic called Hadacol that the senator had invented.
	sciam.com /article.cfm?articleID=000547F6-C50D-1CC6-B4A8809EC588EEDF (438 words)

	eBay - martin gardner, Nonfiction Books, Antiquarian Collectible items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Annotated Alice by Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner, Si...
		The Relativity Explosion by Martin Gardner; Anthony Rav
		Lewis Carroll & Martin Gardner / THE ANNOTATED ALICE
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	Amazon.de: From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley Jr.: On Science, Literature, and Religion: English Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Also in Gardner's sights are TV evangelists, Buckley's brand of Christianity and social constructionist theories of science and math.
		The tireless Gardner collects another batch of his articles, introductions, and reviews concerned with his great enthusiasms--science, miracle-mongering religion, and literature, especially literature concerned with science and religion.
		The other is that of an intellectual publicist when he writes about forgotten popular and children's magazines, such as the puzzle-filled John Martin's Book, or G. Chesterton's novels, which contain intriguing puzzles in their multileveled allegorical structures (Gardner is, by the way, a prolific puzzle maker and anthologist, too).
	www.amazon.de /Wandering-Jew-William-Buckley-Jr/dp/1573928526 (513 words)

	Ivars Peterson's MathTrek
		Martin Gardner describes many more features of lucky numbers in a delightful article in a recent issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer.
		Gardner's imaginary friend, the noted numerologist Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix, can readily find additional remarkable properties associated with that number.
		But it was Gardner's discussion of tests that show whether a large number can be divided by a number from 2 to 12 that really caught my attention.
	www.maa.org /mathland/mathtrek1.html (1160 words)

	The Annotated Alice (Main Page) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner.
		For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll.
		Forty years after this groundbreaking publication, Norton is proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work that combines the notes of Gardner's 1960 edition with his 1990 update, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional new discoveries and updates drawn from Gardner's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/fall99/alice.htm (155 words)

	The Martin Gardner Room - Books on science and pseudoscience
		Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds.
		Martin Gardner was a columnist for Scientific American for many years.
		He has written countless books on this topic, but most skeptics know him for his debunking of pseudoscientific notions such as dianetics and orgone energy.
	skepdic.com /refuge/gardner.html (574 words)

	Martin Gardner Books Recommendations, Where to Buy, Advice, Top-Rated Gift Ideas - Surprise.com Gifts
		Martin Gardner is the king of puzzles, brain teasers, and recreational math.
		As they get into their teens, they will love exploring more of Gardner's books.
		Martin Gardner - My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles
	www.surprise.com /kids/math_skills/martin_gardner_books.cfm (107 words)

	Martin Gardner's HIP Game
		Hip is a game invented by the well known recreational mathematician Martin Gardner.
		There is essentially only one way for a complete game to end in a tie.
		Here's another interesting Martin Gardner puzzle/game, originally published in his "Mathematical Recreations" Scientific American magazine column in the 60's.
	www.delphiforfun.org /Programs/HIP.htm (592 words)

	Martin Gardner - Planet Perplex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Vanishing Area Paradox - Martin Gardner, 1961
		This is a real classic among the riddles that circulate the internet.
		The Vanishing Area Paradox II - Martin Gardner
	www.planetperplex.com /en/martin_gardner.html (76 words)

	Gardner Index
		This is a crude index to fifteen books containing collections of Martin Gardner's articles from Scientific American.
		I have found his articles invaluable in gathering interesting material to supplement ``standard textbook stuff.'' In fact, I believe one reason I am in mathematics today is that I began reading Gardner's books and articles in Junior High School and High School.
		Modified by Charles Kluepfel to add books G12-G15 and to interleave the index of lower case and upper case entries.
	www.ms.uky.edu /~lee/ma502/gardner5/gardner5.html (854 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Martin Gardner
		[Gardner's Workout: training the mind and entertaining the spirit.
		Here are many articles from Gardner's Skeptical Inquirer column "Notes of a Fringe Watcher", about pseudoscience and other way-out whacky beliefs.
		In the introduction, where Gardner laments the population's deplorable ignorance of science, he says that he hopes the book might
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/bib/nf/g/gardner.htm (223 words)

	Math, Puzzles, Magic, Mazes, Illusions
		A Lifetime of Puzzles: A Collection of Puzzles in Honor of Martin Gardner's 90th Birthday (Hardcover)
		by Martin Gardner (Editor), Elwyn Berlekamp (Editor), Tom Rodgers "While there is no biography of Martin Gardner, there are various interviews and articles about Gardner..."
		Tribute To A Mathemagician is an impressive compilation of mathematical games and puzzles contributed by a roster of "Who's Who" in the world of puzzles.
	www.g4g4.com (219 words)

	Unlimited Room for Thought: (9/28/2001): When Is A Paradox Not A Paradox
		The puzzle is generally referred to as Newcomb's Paradox, since it is generally accepted that William Newcomb, the physicist it is named after, originated it.
		Some of the best writing about the paradox has been produced by Martin Gardner and Robert Nozick, and in fact Gardner's Scientific American essay (from 1973) was what touched off my line of thinking.
		Newcomb's paradox is actually more of a game-theory problem than a paradox, but it is still capable of touching off no end of arguments between people you would normally consider quite like-minded.
	www.thegline.com /thought/2001/09-28-2001.htm (1827 words)

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		If anyone wants any bibliographic data, contents, or other research in the Gardner titles in my possession, please ask.
		I haven't tried to catalogue articles by Gardner; that would be a huge undertaking!
		If you know of any other published book by Martin Gardner, please tell me about it.
	www.loyalty.org /~schoen/gardner-booklist.html (769 words)

	Martin Gardner's Table Magic $5.98
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		The Magic Depot in Tulsa Oklahoma stocks thousands of magic tricks and supplies, like Martin Gardner's Table Magic!
	www.magic.org /store/product_info.php?products_id=3926 (357 words)

	Martin Gardner Evaluates Dianetics
		Reference: Martin Gardner, "Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science", Dover Publications: New York, 1957 (1st ed 1952).
		DIANETICS (from a Greek word meaning thought) is a new science of the mind discovered by Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, a popular writer of science fiction.
		It suggests once more how far from accurate is the stereotype of the science fiction fan as a bright, well-informed, scientifically literate fellow.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /~dst/Library/Shelf/gardner (6803 words)

	Multiverses and Blackberries; Notes of a Fringe-Watcher (Skeptical Inquirer September 2001)
		The MWI should not be confused with a more recent concept of a multiverse proposed by Andrei Linde, a Russian physicist now at Stanford University, as well as by a few other cosmologists such as England's Martin Rees.
		This multiverse is essentially a response to the anthropic argument that there must be a Creator because our universe has so many basic physical constants so finely tuned that, if any one deviated by a tiny fraction, stars and planets could not form-let alone life appear on a planet.
		This site was created by BarelyFitz Designs (designer Patrick Fitzgerald), except where otherwise noted.
	www.csicop.org /si/2001-09/fringe-watcher.html (2178 words)

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