Martin Gardner
American mathematician
Born on: October 21, 1914Died on: May 22, 2010
Aged: 95 years 213 days (1147 months)
Birth Sign: Scorpio
Martin Gardner was an American writer on popular mathematics and popular science. His interests also encompassed magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L.
Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies.
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".
He was considered the doyen of American puzzlers. He was a prolific and versatile author, publishing more than 100 books.
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