[ExI] Martin Gardner

[David Lubkin]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/books/review/undiluted-hocus-pocus-by-martin-gardner.html?pagewanted=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all>

A book review of Martin Gardner's autobiography 
by Teller. Of Penn &, not Edward, of hydrogen 
bombs and LLNL. Although Edward Teller and Martin 
Gardner both loved science and lived to 95. 
Teller was from Budapest; Gardner from Tulsa. 
Budapest and Tulsa are often confused. I know I am.

Reading over that ¶, I see that thinking about 
Gardner is an autonomic trigger for attempted 
whimsy. And borogoves. Which is how I tell him 
apart from Edward Teller, who sets me thinking of Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves.

I have here the copy of his The 2nd Scientific 
American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & 
Diversions I was given as a kid. Leafing through, 
I remember each chapter was like seeing (my 
favorite) Uncle Abe. Quirky, funny, interesting, 
and interested in what a kid had to say.


-- David.