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Review of: Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century: Edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins

Review of: Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century: Edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins Review of5 Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century: Edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins Publisher: MAA $40.00 Softcover, 300 pages, Year: 2013 Reviewer: William Gasarch gasarch@cs.umd.edu Introduction As I am sure the readers of this review know, Martin Gardner had a column in Scientific American on mathematics. Recreational? Deep? Fun? Serious? (these need not be opposites) Part of his genius is that he blurred that line. The book under review is proof of that blurring: it contains articles in serious math journals that were inspired by fun things he wrote in his column. Content There are 41 articles, 8 by Gardner himself, and the rest by a variety of mathematicians. They are in 7 categories: Geometry, Number theory and Graph theory, Flexagons and Catalan Numbers, Making things Fit, Further Puzzles and Games, Cards and Probability, and Other Aspects of Martin Gardner. Notice that this is an odd way to divide mathematics (e.g., Number theory and Graph Theory in the same category, and that category of equal importance to Flexagons and Catalan Numbers); however, this is what is so wonderful about this book-- it's a collection of random math of interest and hence need not fit into any http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGACT News Association for Computing Machinery

Review of: Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century: Edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins

ACM SIGACT News , Volume 46 (2) – Jun 4, 2015

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Association for Computing Machinery
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Copyright © 2015 by ACM Inc.
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0163-5700
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10.1145/2789149.2789154
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Review of5 Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century: Edited by Michael Henle and Brian Hopkins Publisher: MAA $40.00 Softcover, 300 pages, Year: 2013 Reviewer: William Gasarch gasarch@cs.umd.edu Introduction As I am sure the readers of this review know, Martin Gardner had a column in Scientific American on mathematics. Recreational? Deep? Fun? Serious? (these need not be opposites) Part of his genius is that he blurred that line. The book under review is proof of that blurring: it contains articles in serious math journals that were inspired by fun things he wrote in his column. Content There are 41 articles, 8 by Gardner himself, and the rest by a variety of mathematicians. They are in 7 categories: Geometry, Number theory and Graph theory, Flexagons and Catalan Numbers, Making things Fit, Further Puzzles and Games, Cards and Probability, and Other Aspects of Martin Gardner. Notice that this is an odd way to divide mathematics (e.g., Number theory and Graph Theory in the same category, and that category of equal importance to Flexagons and Catalan Numbers); however, this is what is so wonderful about this book-- it's a collection of random math of interest and hence need not fit into any

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Published: Jun 4, 2015

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