[ExI] Martin Gardner

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>... On Behalf Of Anders Sandberg

On 2014-01-06 18:04, John Clark wrote:
>>... I think I've read most of Martin Gardner's books, he will be missed.

>...Same here. I devoured those books when I was a kid. Not everything
interested me, but I realized just how cool math could be.

>...My first collector hobby was mathematical paradoxes, stimulated by some
in his books.
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>...Dr Anders Sandberg
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I discovered Gardner's work when I was in high school.  Later I went back
into a collection of old Scientific American bound volumes and read every
Mathematical Games column starting in 1956.  Excellent stuff!

If you go look in those old Scientific American issues, it is really
striking how much attention span they assumed back in those days.  It
required a lot more focus, drive and endurance to go through most of the
articles.  The evidence is as close as your local university library.

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