Martin Gardner Centennial

Martin Gardner was born 21 Oct 1914, and events celebrating his centennial and his extensive legacy have taken place throughout 2014-2015, all over the world!

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YouTube ("Martin Gardner 1914 2010—The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had," Oct 2014/2015)

Princeton University Press (The Best Writing on Mathematics 2015, Dec 2015)

Scientific American ("The Mathematical Surprises of Triangles, Squares and Pentagons," 28 Oct 2015)

Huffington Post ("The Search for the Mathematically Optimal Pack of Cigarettes," 21 Oct 2015)

New York Times ("The Importance of Recreational Math," by Manil Suri, 12 Oct 2015)

Google Tech Talk ("Martin Gardner 101," by Colm Mulcahy, 30 Jul 2015)

Older centennial articles, features, blogs / Tricks and Treats
Scheduled Celebration of Mind events / Registering Celebration of Mind events

Some of the publications honoring Martin right now (click on the images, and see below for more details).

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Highlights

Atlanta Journal and Constitution ("Fans of math icon Martin Gardner gather in Atlanta," by Bo Emerson, 18 Mar 2014)
Mathematics Awareness Month 2014 ("Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery," Apr 2014)
SIAM News ("Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Grapevine" by James Case, Vol 47, No 3, Apr 2014)
Notices of the AMS ("Mathematician, Magician, Mysterian" by Adam D. Rigny, Apr 2014)
Scientific American ("Magic, Puzzles Delight Math Fans at G4G" by George Groth, 1 Apr 2014)
AMS Feature Column ("Magical Mathematics—A Tribute to Martin Gardner" by Joseph Malkevitch, 1 Apr 2014)
NPR's Weekend Edition ("Martin Gardner, Genius of Recreational Mathematics" by Keith Devlin, 12 Apr 2014)
SIAM News ("The Mathematical Legacy of Martin Gardner" by Elwyn Berlekamp, Vol 47, No 7, pages 4 & 7, Sep 2014)
MAA Math Horizons ("Undiluted Hocus-Pocus" review and "The Top 10 Things Every Mathematics Student Should Know about Martin Gardner" by Colm Mulcahy, Vol 22, No 3, pages 24-25, Sep 2014) [access to online version requires a subscription]
MAA Math Horizons ("The Top 10 Things Every Mathematics Student Should Know about Martin Gardner" will be available as a ready-to-print download specially formatted to tape into a never-ending Mobius band, Oct 2014)
Scientific American ("A Centennial Celebration of Martin Gardner" online only, 16 Sep 2014), featuring:
- Scientific American ("Make Your Own Hexaflexagons…and Snap Pictures of Them" online only, 16 Sep 2014)
- Scientific American ("The Number 2,187 Is Lucky. Here's Why" online only, 16 Sep 2014)
- Scientific American ("Can You Solve a Puzzle Unsolved Since 1996?" online only, 16 Sep 2014)
- Scientific American ("How Well Do You Know Martin Gardner? [Quiz]" online only, 16 Sep 2014)
- Scientific American ("Test Yourself: Try some classic recreational math puzzles" online only, 16 Sep 2014)
Scientific American ("Let the Games Continue" by Colm Mulcahy & Dana Richards, Oct 2014, Vol 311, No 4, pages 90–95) [originally online 16 Sep 2014]
The Laborastory ("Dr. Burkard Polster on Martin Gardner," 19-minute podcast, 28 Sep 2014)
Investigación y Ciencia ("Cien años con Martin Gardner" por Colm Mulcahy & Dana Richards, Oct 2014, No 457)
APS The Physics Teacher ("Martin Gardner: 100 Years of the Magic of Physics ," John Gillaspy, Vol 52, No 7, Oct 2014) [access to 22 Sept 2014 online version requires a subscription]
NCTM Mathematics Teacher ("The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had" by Colm Mulcahy & Al Goetz, Vol 108, No 3, pages 194–199, Oct 2014) [access to 23 Sep 2014 online version requires a subscription]
Genii ("A Gardnerian Centennial" aka "A Brief Look Back at Martin Gardner" by Max Maven, Oct 2014, page 31)
M-U-M (cover story, "Martin Gardner: A Celebration of his (12 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 67 + 8 + 9)th Year" by Tom Ewing, featuring interviews with Mark Setteducati, Dana Richards, Max Maven, John Railing, James Randi, Dick Hatch, Oct 2014, pages 36–40) ["Copyright 2014 by The Society of American Magicians. Used by permission."]
Physics World (Critical Point "Celebrating the Mind" by Bob Crease, page 20, Oct 2014) [requires free registration to read]
AMS's Math Digest ("Celebrating Martin Gardner's 100th Birthday" by Mike Breen and Annette Emerson, 1 Oct 2014)
Linking Ring ("Pictures from the Past", Vol 94, No 10, 1 Oct 2014)
Baum Bugle (Dana Richards, Autumn 2014, Vol 58, No 2, 1 Oct 2014)
"Martin Gardner, el hombre que convirtió a miles de niños en matemáticos y a miles de matemáticos en niños" (Fernando Blasco, Investigacion y Ciencia, 3 Oct 2014)
El universo matemágico de Martin Gardner: Juegos, acertijos, paradojas y otras maravillas recreativas (Fernando Blasco, Temas IyC, No 77, Jul/Sep 2014, book and ebook, actually issued 3 Oct 2014)
MAA FOCUS ("Honoring a Century of Martin Gardner," Ivars Peterson, pages 12–13, Oct/Nov 2014, online from 3 Oct 2014 )
Martin Gardner: The Magic and Mystery of Numbers, 298-page Scientific American ebook (6 Oct 2014)
Dr Matrix talks to Owen O'Shea (Owen O'Shea, 11 Oct 2014)
A Gardner's Dozen—Martin's Scientific American Cover Stories (12 Oct 2014)
NYT ("Martin Gardner: The Three-Card Swindle," with Persi Diaconis input, Gary Antonick, 13 Oct 2014)
13 Omni-potent Puzzles from Scot Morris (Celebration of Mind, 13 Oct 2014)
"In Honor of Martin Gardner's 100th birthday" (James Randi, 14 Oct 2014)
"Martin Gardner’s 100th Birthday" (Center for Inquiry, Tim Binga, 14 Oct 2014)
"Afdød matematiker hyldes på SDU" ("Deceased mathematician honored," MitFyn, Jesper Mads Eriksen, 15 Oct 2014)
Skeptical Inquirer ("In Celebration of Martin Gardner" and free access to classic Notes of a Psi-Watcher columns: "Lessons of a Landmark PK Hoax," "Facilitated Communication and False Memory," and others, in Nov/Dec 2014 issue, 15 Oct 2014)
"The 'Aha' Behind Leading Aha Moments" (Forbes, George Bradt, 15 Oct 2014)
Martin Gardner Communications Award (14-minute video from 1994, 15 Oct 2014)
Martin Gardner: In His Own Words (MAA, 16 Oct 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Card Tricks (Max Maven, 16 Oct 2014)
MAA Celebrates Martin Gardner Centennial with Release of Long-Lost Gardner Video Footage (Newswise, 17 Oct 2014)
100 Martin Gardner Wordplay Headscratchers (17 Oct 2014)
NPR ("Time to Flex Those Math Muscles," Will Shortz, 19 Oct 2014, solution posted on 26 Oct, see below)
The Age ("Martin Gardner and Mr Hyde," Burkard Polster & Marty Ross, 20 Oct 2014)
NYT ("Remembering Martin Gardner," with Scott Kim input, Gary Antonick, 20 Oct 2014)
Plus ("Five Martin Gardner eye-openers involving squares and cubes", Colm Mulcahy, 20 Oct 2014)
BBC ("Martin Gardner, Puzzle Master Extraordinaire," Colm Mulcahy, 21 Oct 2014, and in Spanish on 26 Oct)
Guardian blog ("Can you solve Martin Gardner’s best mathematical puzzles?," Alex Bellos, 21 Oct 2014, answers posted on 27 Oct, see below)
Celebration of Mind ("Happy Centennial Birthday, Martin Gardner!," Aziz Anan, 21 Oct 2014)
Magic magazine ("Martin Gardner's Corner" revisted weekly by Jason English at M360, starting 21 Oct 2014)
Computational Complexity blog ("Martin Gardner Centennial," Lance Fortnow & Bill Gasarch, 21 Oct 2014)
Chess News blog ("Martin Gardner's 100th Anniversary," Frederic Friedel, 21 Oct 2014)
Cifras y Teclas ("Dos acertijos de Gardner para trolear y una sorprendente utilidad," David Orden, 21 Oct 2014)
Wolfram blog ("Martin Gardner’s 100th Birthday," Ed Pegg Jr, 21 Oct 2014)
Scientific American blog ("The Top 10 Martin Gardner Scientific American Articles," Colm Mulcahy, 21 Oct 2014)
Centre de Recursos per a l'Aprenentatge i la Investigació, Universitat de Barcelona ("Exposició virtual: Martin Gardner: Centenari, 1914-2014," 21 Oct 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Non-Card Tricks (Max Maven, 21 Oct 2014)
Fat Brain Toys ("A Salute to Martin Gardner," Mark & Karen Carson, 21 Oct 2014)
Martin Gardner: Reviewer (22 Oct 2014)
Puzzlium (Three special new "Celebration of Mind 2014" puzzle offerings from the Grabarchuk family, 22 Oct 2014)
Games World of Puzzles ("In Memory of Martin Gardner," Raymond Simon, Dec 2014, page 48, available circa 22 Oct 2014)
Life with Armand T. Ringer (video of Mar 2014 talk by Martin Gardner's son Jim at G4G11 in Atlanta, 23 Oct 2014)
Varese News ("Indovinelli e giochi: come si impara la matematica," 23 Oct 2014)
The Norman Transcript ("A Man of Numbers and Letters", Colm Mulcahy, 23 Oct 2014)
MetaFilter ("100 Years of Martin Gardner!," Wolfdog, 23 Oct 2014)
Live Mint ("A life in reason: Martin Gardner," Dilip D’Souza, 23 Oct 2014)
Skeptical Inquirer online ("In Celebration of Martin Gardner" and free access to over a dozen of his columns, including: "Oprah Winfrey: Bright (but Gullible) Billionaire," "Bill Maher: Crank and Comic," "Bobby Fischer: Genius and Idiot," etc, Oct 2014)
BBC ("How to solve the brain-teasers set by a top puzzle master," Colm Mulcahy, 24 Oct 2014)
Celebration of Mind ("Mathemagician Crossword," by Dana Richards, 24 Oct 2014)
BBC ("El hombre que convirtió las matemáticas en juego," 26 Oct 2014, translation of "Martin Gardner, Puzzle Master Extraordinaire," Colm Mulcahy, 21 Oct 2014)
Guardian blog ("Solutions to Martin Gardner's best mathematical puzzles," Alex Bellos, 27 Oct 2014, answers to puzzles posted on 21 Oct, see above)
NPR ("Take This Job And Puzzle It" by Will Shortz, 26 Oct 2014, solution to puzzle posed in "Time to Flex Those Math Muscles" from 19 Oct, see above)
Math Munch ("Scary-o-graphic Projection, Thinky the Dragon, and Martin Gardner," 27 Oct 2014)
NYT ("Ignited by Martin Gardner, Ian Stewart Continues to Illuminate," Gary Antonick, 27 Oct 2014)
Świat Nauki ("Niech trwają gry", "Let the Games Continue" by Colm Mulcahy & Dana Richards in Polish, Nov 2014)
SAND (Science and Nonduality Gathering) ("SAND 14 LiveStream," Edward Frenkel, 27 Oct 2014, starts 1 hour 30 mins in)
Huffington Post ("Top 10 Martin Gardner Books (This List Goes Up to 11)," Colm Mulcahy, 28 Oct 2014)
Skeptical Inquirer ("New Martin Gardner Brick at CFI Memorial Courtyard," 30 Oct 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Alter Egos (30 Oct 2014)
Card Colm ("Certain Glory Marks Martin Gardner's Centennial," Colm Mulcahy, 31 Oct 2014)
ABC.es ("El Muncyt homenajea a al mathematíco Martin Gardner," 1 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Skeptical Contributions (1 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Obscure Facts (2 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Physics Stumpers (3 Nov 2014)
10 Top 10 Martin Gardner Lists (4 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Obscure Books (5 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Edited Books (6 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Children's Books (7 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Quotes About Martin Gardner (8 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Quotes By Martin Gardner (9 Nov 2014)
Huffington Post ("A Million Business Cards Present a Math Challenge," Tim Chartier, 10 Nov 2014)
Books Edited By Martin Gardner (10 Nov 2014)
Lo Spazio Bianco ("Il CICAP diventa un fumetto," 12 Nov 2014)
Top 10 Martin Gardner Centennial Tributes (17 Nov 2014)
Games World of Puzzles (Jen Orehowsky & Raymond Simon, Feb 2015 issue, pages 40–41, available late Nov)
Pour la Science ("Martin Gardner, le jeu se poursuit", "Let the Games Continue" by Colm Mulcahy & Dana Richards in French, Dec 2014)
Scientific American China Edition ("马丁·加德纳：数学世界的无冕之王," "Let the Games Continue" by Colm Mulcahy & Dana Richards, Dec 2014)
Scientific American Taiwan Edition ("葛老爹數學遊戲不死", "Let the Games Continue" by Colm Mulcahy & Dana Richards, Dec 2014)
Nikkei Science ("原題名", "Let the Games Continue" by Colm Mulcahy & Dana Richards in Japanese, Jan 2015)
Knight Letter (circa 10th Dec 2014)

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