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Martin Gardner, (October 21, 1914 - May 22, 2010) was an American polymath, recreational mathematics and science writer, and author of the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981. He was inventor of various games such as 5×5 Minichess, which was recently weakly solved by Frédéric Prost and Mehdi Mhalla , and  Hexapawn, designed to demonstrate Michie's machine learning algorithm with only 24 Matchboxes instead of 300 as required for the tic-tac-toe machine MENACE. Due to his publications, Gardner popularized countless mathematical games and puzzles, notably the game of Hex and Conway's Game of Life.

=Selected Publications=

1950 ...

 * Martin Gardner (1952). In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present. Putnam, in 1957 republished as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science.
 * Martin Gardner (1956). Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery. Dover Publications
 * Martin Gardner (1957). Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. Dover Publications, ISBN 978-0-486-20394-2
 * Martin Gardner (1958, 1983). Logic Machines and Diagrams. McGraw-Hill, University of Chicago Press
 * Martin Gardner (1959). The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions. Simon & Schuster
 * Martin Gardner (1959). The Game of Hex. pages 73-83 » Hex

1960 ...

 * Martin Gardner (1960). The Annotated Alice. Clarkson Potter
 * Martin Gardner (1962, 1974). The Annotated Snark. Simon & Schuster
 * Martin Gardner (1964, 1969, 1979, 1990, 2005). The Ambidextrous Universe. Penguin Books
 * Martin Gardner (1967). Problems that are Built on the Knight's Tour in Chess. Scientific American, Vol. 130
 * Martin Gardner (1969, 1991). The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions. Simon & Schuster, University Of Chicago Press.

1970 ...

 * Martin Gardner (1970). Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life". Scientific American, Vol. 223, pp. 120-123.
 * Martin Gardner (1973). Mathematical Games: How to Turn a Chessboard into a Computer to Calculate with Negabinary Numbers. Scientific American, Vol. 228, No. 4
 * Martin Gardner (1975). Mathematical Carnival. Vintage Books
 * Martin Gardner (1977). Mathematical Magic Show. Vintage Books
 * Martin Gardner (1978). Aha! Insight. W.H. Freeman & Company
 * Martin Gardner (1979). Mathematical Circus . Vintage Books
 * Martin Gardner (1979). Chess Problems on a Higher Plane, Including Mirror Images, Rotations and the Superqueen. Scientific American, Vol. 270

1980 ...

 * Martin Gardner (1982). Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight. W.H. Freeman & Company
 * Martin Gardner (1983). Baffling Brainteasers. Davis Publications

1990 ...

 * Lee Sallows, Martin Gardner, Richard K. Guy, Donald Knuth (1991). Serial Isogons of 90 Degrees. Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 64, No. 5
 * Martin Gardner (1994). My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles. Dover Publications
 * Martin Gardner (1996). The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays. Springer-Verlag
 * Martin Gardner (1999). The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition. W. W. Norton & Company

2000 ...

 * Martin Gardner (2001). The Colossal Book of Mathematics - : Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems. W. W. Norton & Company
 * Martin Gardner (2004). Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries? W. W. Norton & Company
 * Martin Gardner (2006). The Annotated Hunting of the Snark. W. W. Norton & Company

2010 ...

 * Martin Gardner, Ken Jennings (2010). The Colossal Book of Wordplay. Sterling Publishing, Puzzlewright Press
 * Mehdi Mhalla, Frédéric Prost (2013). Gardner’s Minichess Variant is Solved. ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 4
 * Martin Gardner (2014). Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner’s Unexpected Hanging. The Mathematical Association of America / Cambridge University Press

=External Links=
 * Martin Gardner from Wikipedia
 * List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns from Wikipedia
 * Martin Gardner Home Site
 * Gathering 4 Gardner Foundation | the aha moment
 * The Mathematical Gardner Homepage
 * Profile: Martin Gardner, the Mathematical Gamester (1914-2010) - Scientific American by Philip Yam, May 22, 2010
 * Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life - Scientific American by Douglas Hofstadter, May 22, 2010

=References=

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