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Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.[4][5] He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll;[6] The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies.[7] He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century".[8] He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers.[9] He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.[10][11] Gardner was best known for creating and sustaining interest in recreational mathematics—and by extension, mathematics in general—throughout the latter half of the 20th century, principally through his "

Martin Gardner - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American mathematics and science writer (1914–2010) <br>[[George Pólya Award]] (1999)<ref>{{cite journal |date=November 2000 |title=MAA Writing Awards Presented |journal=Notices of the AMS |volume=47 |issue=10 |page=1282 |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/200010/people.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140712030543/http://www.ams.org/notices/200010/people.pdf |archive-date=July 12, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Gardner |first=Martin |date=January 1999 |title=The Asymmetric Prop

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