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Math and puzzle fans find magic in Martin Gardner's legacy
Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner started a long mathematical conversation that continues today
Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy continues to bring mathematicians, artists and puzzlers together. “He started out as a child magician, and the last thing he published was also a magic trick, about a month before he died,” says Colm Mulcahy, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Spelman College. Gardner “didn’t have the high profile of his contemporary Richard Feynman or his friend Isaac Asimov, and he lacked the PR instincts of Salvador Dalí, who sought him out [to discuss four-dimensional shapes], or Steve Jobs,” Mulcahy says.
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