![]() ![]() Gardner was best known for creating and sustaining interest in recreational mathematics – and by extension, mathematics in general – throughout the latter half of the 20th century, principally through his "Mathematical Games" columns. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books. He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He was also a leading authority on Lewis Carroll. Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Douglas Hofstadter, Michael Shermer, Donald Knuth, Raymond Smullyan, Marvin Minsky, John Horton Conway, Persi Diaconis, Ray Hyman, James Randi, Ronald Graham, Dennis Shasha, Ian Stewart, Erik Demaine ![]()
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