Martin Gardner is dead

The author of that phenomenally influential Mathematical Games column in Scientific American (if you are of a certain age you will remember it well), Martin Gardner, has died at the age of 95.

95 is a very interesting number, but then one of the things we learned from Gardner is that they all are.

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