I will be leaving for Atlanta, GA tomorrow to participate in the Ninth Gathering for Gardner. That's Martin Gardner, of course. I will be giving a short talk about the Monty Hall problem on Thursday morning, and then it will be three days of math, magic and other cool things. Gardner contributed a jacket endorsement to my Monty Hall book.
The evo/creo book continues to plod along. I have now crossed the 30,000 word mark. It's a bit stressful, one minute I think I have written something pretty good, the next I think it is career-ending crap. Whatever.
Hopefully I"ll get back to semi-regular blogging when I return.
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Martin Gardner, polymath, puzzle-master, and philosopher, died on Sunday at the age of 95.
Martin Gardner has passed away at age 95.
... (and one other guy). And Gardner died on Saturday.
He was born in October 1914. So that made him ...
Do the math.
Here is a sampling of his works. He published dozens of books, IIRC, so this is a very loose sample.
Recommended by a local:
Bar downtown: Trader Vic's in basement of Ritz Carlton
Breakfast joints near to downtown: Ria's Bluebird; Thumbs Up Diner;
Lunch Joints near to downtown: again, Ria's; Grindhouse Burgers in the Sweet Auburn Street Market
Personally my life element is carbon. But whatever...