Recreational mathematics
People
Prominent practitioners and advocates of recreational mathematics have included:

Recreational mathematics

Section Title: People
Table Section Text: Prominent practitioners and advocates of recreational mathematics have included:

Full name	Last name	Born	Died	Nationality	Description

Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)	Carroll	1832	1898	English	Mathematician, puzzlist, Anglican deacon and photographer best known as the author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass

Sam Loyd	Loyd	1841	1911	American	Chess player and composer and recreational mathematician, described as America's greatest puzzlist[by whom?]

Henry Dudeney	Dudeney	1857	1930	English	Civil servant described as England's "greatest puzzlist".

Yakov Perelman	Perelman	1882	1942	Russian	Author of many popular science and mathematics books, including Mathematics Can Be Fun

Martin Gardner	Gardner	1914	2010	American	Popular mathematics and science writer; author of Mathematical Games, a long-running Scientific American column

Joseph Madachy	Madachy	1927	2014	American	Long-time editor of Journal of Recreational Mathematics, author of Mathematics on Vacation and Madachy's Mathematical Recreations, recreational mathematician and mathematician

Solomon W. Golomb	Golomb	1932	2016	American	Mathematician and engineer, best known as the inventor of polyominoes

John Horton Conway	Conway	1937	—	English	Mathematician and inventor of Conway's Game of Life, co-author of Winning Ways, an analysis of many mathematical games

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Mathematical Games was a long-running Scientific American column by Martin Gardner.

final_sentence: Mathematical Games was a long-running Scientific American column by Martin Gardner.