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See also: Gardner
Martin Gardner (1914, Tulsa Oklahoma -) is a large specialist in the entertaining Mathématiques. He is one of the founding fathers of the scientific Scepticisme with the the United States.
He grew in and around Tulsa, in Oklahoma. During the second world war, it was useful in the American navy. He was also secretary of the captain of his vessel and other officers.
After the war, it was student at the University of Chicago, and was seen decreeing a bachelor' S dismantles in philosophy. It is, for the remainder, an autodidact, showing a taste pronounced for the reading and research.
During several decades, he lived with his wife in North Carolina, where he was independent author and published many books in several different editors, as well as hundreds of articles in various magazines
His wife died in 2004.
Its life its work
It published much, in particular of January 1957 with 1982, in the monthly review Scientific American (and its French translation For Science ), where it animated during several decades a remarkable heading devoted to the plays, mathematical headaches and curiosities like with the logical paradoxes, which largely contributed to develop the interest for mathematics at its readers.Its books also famous and are translated in many languages.
It popularized, for example, the play of the life of John Horton Conway, the play Hex, the Tangram S and pavings of Penrose.
He is also regarded as a specialist in " Alice with the country of Merveilles" and of the work of Lewis Caroll in general. It published " The Annotated Alice" , a version " annotée" novel of Lewis Caroll. It took its retirement in 1982, being devoted almost exclusively to the disassembling of the pseudo-paranormales demonstrations, which it had already begun since 1952 with the publication of Fads and fallacies in the name off science (Dover). It was then illustrated by its glance skeptic by taking part in the study of many cases of phenomena supposément " extraordinaires" , with an aim of uncovering impostors in this field, and published several books on the subject. It was during many years a writer of the magazine " Skeptical Inquirer" (autoproclamé Magazine of Science and the Reason), and also founding member of the CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation off Claims off the Paranormal, become recently CSI for Committee for Skeptical Inquiry).
The American Institute of physics named it scientific writer year 1983.
Martin Gardner was the pupil and the assistant of the logician Rudolf Carnap, member eminent of the Cercle of Vienna, after this one was constrained to emigrate in the USA.
He published, in 1970, a work the mathematical headaches of Sam Loyd with the ED. Dunod.
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