Showing posts with label Martin Gardner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Gardner. Show all posts
Friday, April 3, 2026

Scientific American Shares Rhymes

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      Lots of years ago, an important part of my awareness of poems that involve math came from reading work by Martin Gardner in his ...
Monday, October 21, 2024

"Celebration of the Mind" Day -- October 21

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     Established in honor of math-popularizer Martin Gardner (1914-2010), Celebration of the Mind Day occurs on October 21 each year.  Lot...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Celebrate Martin Gardner

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      Martin Gardner (1914-2010) was a friend to mathematics and made many aspects of the subject available to a wide audience for twenty-f...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Twelveness -- a Fibonacci poem from G4G

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      Science writer, philosopher, and skeptic Martin Gardner (1914-2010) is perhaps best known for his long-running Scientific American c...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

How Old Is the Rose-Red City?

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     Most of Martin Gardner 's fans are avid puzzler's -- my connection with him is also one of admiration (he was a thoughtful pers...
Monday, October 20, 2014

Martin Gardner collected poems

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     Last week the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) had a special program honoring Martin Gardner (1914-2010); tomorrow (October 21...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Math, Magic, Mystery -- and so few women

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Today, April 30, is the final day of Mathematics Awareness Month 2014 ; this year's theme has been "Mathematics, Magic and Mystery...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Martin Gardner, again

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     This past weekend a review by Teller (magician of the Penn & Teller team) of an autobiography of Martin Gardner appeared in the ...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Symmetric 4 x 4 square

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Martin Gardner (1914-2010) studied philosophy and was interested in everything.  For 25 years he wrote the "Mathematical Games" f...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

I miss you, Martin Gardner

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Martin Gardner (1914-2010), featured also in my June 6 posting , would have been 96 years old today--October 21, 2010.  All over the world ...
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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Snowballs -- growing/shrinking lines

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Today's post explores poetic structures called snowballs  developed by the Oulipo (see also March 25 posting ) and known to many throug...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Celebrate Martin Gardner (1914-2010)

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Martin Gardner described his relationship to poetry as that of "occasional versifier" -- he is the author, for example, of:    ...
Thursday, May 6, 2010

Mathematical 'grooks' from Piet Hein

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Piet Hein (Denmark, 1905-1996) was many-faceted--by times a philosopher, mathematician, designer, scientist, inventor of games and poet. He...