马丁·加德纳(英语:Martin Gardner,1914年10月21日—2010年5月22日)。美国名声显赫的业余数学大师、魔术师、怀疑论者,他是《科学美国人》杂志上一个曾开设了20多年的数学游戏专栏作者。他没有数学博士学位,但是他的作品能让广大普通读者和数学家也为之着迷。马丁·加德纳才华横溢,著作颇丰,据不完全统计,迄今已写了五十本以上的书。他曾多次获奖,包括美国物理学会及美国钢铁基金会的优秀科学作者奖,台湾的出版社也以“葛登能”、“葛老爹”为名翻译他的著作[2][3]。
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生平
他生于美国俄克拉荷马州的塔尔萨(Tulsa)。1936年,毕业于芝加哥大学哲学系。在进入大学之前,他是一个新教原教旨主义者。通过理性的思考,在大学期间他的信仰发生了变化,后来他成了一位哲学有神论者。毕业后他在家乡的《民友报》担任记者。二战期间,他成为美国海军的随军记者。战后,他继续从事自由撰稿人和编辑工作。他的主要工作是1957年到1981年在《科学美国人》的长期专栏作家,他所包办的“数学游戏”专栏,成为该杂志的一个“特色产品”。
被翻译为中文的作品
- 《跳出思路的陷阱》
- 《密码传奇》
- 《人人都能懂得的相对论》
- 《表里不一的宇宙》
- 《好科学、坏科学、伪科学》
- 《不可思议的矩阵博士》
- 《数学狂欢节》
- 《啊哈?灵机一动》
- 《从惊讶到思考——数学悖挑奇景》
- 《矛盾集锦》 原名:Paradox Box
- 《数学推敲》
- 《打开魔数箱》
延伸阅读
- Albers, Don (2008). The Martin Gardner Interview (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) (in five parts) with MAA Editorial Director Don Albers, fifteeneightyfour: the blog of Cambridge University Press
- AMS Notices (2004). Interview with Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Notices of the AMS, Vol. 52, No. 6, June/July 2005, pp. 602–611
- AMS Notices (2011). Memories of Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Notices of the AMS, Vol. 58, No. 3, March 2011, p. 420
- Antonick, Gary (2014). Ignited by Martin Gardner, Ian Stewart Continues to Illuminate The New York Times, October 27, 2014
- Auerbach, David (2013). A Delville of a Tolkar: Martin Gardner’s “Undiluted Hocus-Pocus” (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Los Angeles Review of Books, November 4, 2013
- BBC News (2014). Martin Gardner, puzzle master extraordinaire (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) BBC News Magazine, October 21, 2014
- Bhargava, Manjul (2018). An Interview with Manjul Bhargava (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) with Colm Mulcahy, G4G13, April 2018
- Bellos, Alex (2010). Martin Gardner obituary (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The Guardian, May 27, 2010
- Berlekamp, Elwyn R (2014). The Mathematical Legacy of Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), September 2, 2014
- Berlekamp, Elwyn R., John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy (1982). Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Academic Press, ISBN 0120911507.
- Brown, Emma (2010). Martin Gardner, prolific math and science writer, dies at 95 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The Washington Post, May 24, 2010
- Burstein, Mark (编). A Bouquet for the Gardner: Martin Gardner Remembered. New York: The Lewis Carroll Society of North America. 2011. ISBN 978-0-930326-17-3.
- Case, James (2014). Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Grapevine (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) By James Case, SIAM News, April 01, 2014
- Costello, Matthew J. (1988). The Greatest Puzzles of All Time New York: Prentice Hall Press, ISBN 0133649369
- Crease, Robert P (2018). Martin Gardner would have smiled (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Physics World: Education and Outreach Blog, 16 April 2018
- Demaine (2008). Edited by Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Tom Rodgers. A lifetime of puzzles : a collection of puzzles in honor of Martin Gardner's 90th birthday (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) A K Peters: Wellesley, MA, ISBN 1568812450
- Dirda, Michael (2009). Book review by Michael Dirda: 'When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish' by Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The Washington Post, October 22, 2009
- The Economist (2010). Martin Gardner obituary (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Jun 3rd 2010
- England, Jason (2014). The puzzling life of Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Cosmos Magazine, February 24, 2014
- Friedel, Frederic (2018). Remembering Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), Jan 16, 2018
- Gardner, Martin (2010). A Quarter Century of Recreational Mathematics by Martin Gardner, Scientific American, May 29, 2010
- Gardner, Martin (2013). Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691159912.
- Gardner, Martin (2016). The Recreational Mathematics of Piet Hein (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Piet Hein Website
- Gathering 4 Gardner (2014). Martin Gardner—Magician (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Gould, Stephen Jay (1982). The Quack Detector (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The New York Review of Books, February 4, 1982
- Groth, George (1983). Review of Gardner’s Game with God (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The New York Review of Books, December 8, 1983
- Hofstadter, Douglas (2010). Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Scientific American, May 24, 2010
- Kim, Scott (2014). Martin Gardner, May 18, 2014 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) - Scott Kim Website* Klarner, David A. (1998). Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner, Dover Publications, New York, pp. 140-166
- Kindley, Evan (2015). Down the Rabbit Hole: The rise, and rise, of literary annotation (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) By Evan Kindley, The New Republic, September 21, 2015
- Kullman, David (1997). The Penrose Tiling at Miami University (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Presented at the Mathematical Association of America Ohio Section Meeting Shawnee State University, October 24, 1997
- Lister, David (1995). Martin Gardner and Paperfolding (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) British Origami Society, February 15, 1995.
- MAA FOCUS (2010). Remembering Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) vol 30 (4), August/September 2010
- MacTutor (2010). History of Mathematics archive: Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
- Malkevitch, Joseph (2014). Magical Mathematics - A Tribute to Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) American Mathematical Society, March 2014
- Martin, Douglas (2010). Martin Gardner, Puzzler and Polymath, Dies at 95 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The New York Times, May 23, 2010
- Martin Gardner—Mathematician (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) (official website)
- Mirsky, Steve (2010). Scholars and Others Pay Tribute to "Mathematical Games" Columnist Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Scientific American, May 24, 2010
- Mulcahy, Colm (2013). Celebrations of Mind Honor Math’s Best Friend, Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Scientific American, October 29, 2013
- Mulcahy, Colm (2014). The Top 10 Martin Gardner Scientific American Articles (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) Scientific American, October 21, 2014
- Mulcahy, Colm (2017). Martin Gardner — The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The Huffington Post, January 23, 2014
- Peterson, Ivars (2014). Honoring a Century of Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) in MAA Focus, the newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America, Vol. 34, No. 5, Oct/Nov 2014
- Princeton University Press Reviews of Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
- Richards, Dana (2014). Math Games of Martin Gardner Still Spur Innovation (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Dana Richards & Colm Mulcahy, Scientific American, October 1, 2014
- Richards, Dana (2018). Martin Gardner, Annotator (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) G4G13, April 2018 - video
- Shermer, Michael (1997). Martin Gardner 1914–2010: Founder of the Modern Skeptical Movement Michael Shermer interviews Martin Gardner, Skeptic Magazine, Vol 5, No. 2 (1997)
- Teller (2014). ‘Undiluted Hocus-Pocus,’ by Martin Gardner (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) The New York Times: Sunday Book Review, January 3, 2014
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