| rdfs:comment | - Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic (conjuring), literature (especially Lewis Carroll), "pseudoscience", philosophy, and religion. He wrote the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981 and has published over 70 books. He popularized Deterministic Bulgarian Solitaire. Gardner coined the term mathemagician.
- Martin Gardner (born 21 October 1914) is a well-known American author on mathematics and the sciences, who also has written a substantial body of work on Oz and L. Frank Baum. His 1957 collaboration with Russel B. Nye, The Wizard of Oz and Who he Was, was one of the earliest serious considerations of the Oz mythos. Gardner has also written a non-canonical novel, Visitors from Oz (1998). His essay collections The Night is Large (1997) and Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries? (2003) contain Oz-related material.
- Gardner was a prolific author, editor, and annotator, publishing more than 100 mostly non-fiction books on such diverse topics as magic, philosophy, science, and literature in addition to recreational mathematics. A fervent rationalist, he also helped launch the skepticism movement against pseudoscience with Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957) and later wrote a regular column for the Skeptical Inquirer (1983-2002).
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| abstract | - Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma) is a popular American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing magic (conjuring), literature (especially Lewis Carroll), "pseudoscience", philosophy, and religion. He wrote the "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981 and has published over 70 books. He popularized Deterministic Bulgarian Solitaire. Gardner coined the term mathemagician.
- Martin Gardner (born 21 October 1914) is a well-known American author on mathematics and the sciences, who also has written a substantial body of work on Oz and L. Frank Baum. His 1957 collaboration with Russel B. Nye, The Wizard of Oz and Who he Was, was one of the earliest serious considerations of the Oz mythos. Gardner has also written a non-canonical novel, Visitors from Oz (1998). His essay collections The Night is Large (1997) and Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries? (2003) contain Oz-related material. Gardner's The Annotated Alice (1960), his edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, was the inspiration and model for Michael Patrick Hearn's The Annotated Wizard of Oz.
- Gardner was a prolific author, editor, and annotator, publishing more than 100 mostly non-fiction books on such diverse topics as magic, philosophy, science, and literature in addition to recreational mathematics. A fervent rationalist, he also helped launch the skepticism movement against pseudoscience with Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957) and later wrote a regular column for the Skeptical Inquirer (1983-2002). Gardner was also one of the leading experts on Lewis Carroll. The Annotated Alice (1960), his annotated edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, is an international best-seller.
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