马丁·加德纳（，）。美国名声显赫的业余数学大师、魔术师、怀疑论者，他是《科学美国人》杂志上一个曾开设了20多年的数学游戏专栏作者。他没有数学博士学位，但是他的作品能让广大普通读者和数学家也为之着迷。马丁·加德纳才华横溢，著作颇丰，据不完全统计，迄今已写了五十本以上的书。他曾多次获奖，包括美国物理学会及美国钢铁基金会的优秀科学作者奖，台灣的出版社也以「葛登能」、「葛老爹」為名翻譯他的著作。

生平
他生于美国俄克拉荷马州的塔尔萨（Tulsa）。1936年，毕业于芝加哥大学哲学系。在进入大学之前，他是一个新教原教旨主义者。通过理性的思考，在大学期间他的信仰发生了变化，后来他成了一位哲学有神论者。毕业后他在家乡的《民友报》担任记者。二战期间，他成为美国海军的随军记者。战后，他继续从事自由撰稿人和编辑工作。他的主要工作是1957年到1981年在《科学美国人》的长期专栏作家，他所包办的“数学游戏”专栏，成为该杂志的一个“特色产品”。

被翻譯為中文的作品 
 《跳出思路的陷阱》
 《密码传奇》
 《人人都能懂得的相对论》
 《表里不一的宇宙》
 《好科学、坏科学、伪科学》
 《不可思议的矩阵博士》
 《数学狂欢节》
 《啊哈？灵机一动》
 《从惊讶到思考——数学悖挑奇景》
《矛盾集錦》 原名：Paradox Box
《數學推敲》
《打開魔數箱》

延伸阅读 
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 AMS Notices (2004). Interview with Martin Gardner  Notices of the AMS, Vol. 52, No. 6, June/July 2005, pp. 602–611
 AMS Notices (2011). Memories of Martin Gardner  Notices of the AMS, Vol. 58, No. 3, March 2011, p. 420
 Antonick, Gary (2014). Ignited by Martin Gardner, Ian Stewart Continues to Illuminate The New York Times, October 27, 2014
 Auerbach, David (2013). A Delville of a Tolkar: Martin Gardner’s “Undiluted Hocus-Pocus”  Los Angeles Review of Books, November 4, 2013
 BBC News (2014). Martin Gardner, puzzle master extraordinaire  BBC News Magazine, October 21, 2014
 Bhargava, Manjul (2018). An Interview with Manjul Bhargava  with Colm Mulcahy, G4G13, April 2018
 Bellos, Alex (2010). Martin Gardner obituary  The Guardian, May 27, 2010
 Berlekamp, Elwyn R (2014). The Mathematical Legacy of Martin Gardner  Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), September 2, 2014
 Berlekamp, Elwyn R.,  John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy (1982). Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays  Academic Press,  .
 Brown, Emma (2010). Martin Gardner, prolific math and science writer, dies at 95   The Washington Post, May 24, 2010
 
 Case, James (2014). Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Grapevine  By James Case, SIAM News, April 01, 2014
 Costello, Matthew J. (1988). The Greatest Puzzles of All Time New York: Prentice Hall Press, 
 Crease, Robert P (2018). Martin Gardner would have smiled  Physics World: Education and Outreach Blog, 16 April 2018
 Demaine (2008). Edited by Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Tom Rodgers. A lifetime of puzzles : a collection of puzzles in honor of Martin Gardner's 90th birthday  A K Peters: Wellesley, MA, 
 Dirda, Michael (2009). Book review by Michael Dirda: 'When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish' by Martin Gardner  The Washington Post, October 22, 2009
 The Economist (2010). Martin Gardner obituary  Jun 3rd 2010
 England, Jason (2014). The puzzling life of Martin Gardner  Cosmos Magazine, February 24, 2014
 Friedel, Frederic (2018). Remembering Martin Gardner , Jan 16, 2018
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 Gardner, Martin (2013). Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner  Princeton University Press, .
 Gardner, Martin (2016). The Recreational Mathematics of Piet Hein  Piet Hein Website
 Gathering 4 Gardner (2014). Martin Gardner—Magician 
 Gould, Stephen Jay (1982). The Quack Detector  The New York Review of Books, February 4, 1982
 Groth, George (1983). [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1983/dec/08/gardners-game-with-god/ Review of Gardner’s Game with God]  The New York Review of Books, December 8, 1983
 Hofstadter, Douglas (2010). Martin Gardner: A Major Shaping Force in My Life  Scientific American, May 24, 2010
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 Kindley, Evan (2015). Down the Rabbit Hole: The rise, and rise, of literary annotation  By Evan Kindley, The New Republic, September 21, 2015
 Kullman, David (1997). The Penrose Tiling at Miami University  Presented at the Mathematical Association of America Ohio Section Meeting Shawnee State University, October 24, 1997
 Lister, David (1995). Martin Gardner and Paperfolding  British Origami Society, February 15, 1995.
 MAA FOCUS (2010). Remembering Martin Gardner  vol 30 (4), August/September 2010
 MacTutor (2010). History of Mathematics archive: Martin Gardner 
 Malkevitch, Joseph (2014). Magical Mathematics - A Tribute to Martin Gardner  American Mathematical Society, March 2014
 Martin, Douglas (2010). Martin Gardner, Puzzler and Polymath, Dies at 95  The New York Times, May 23, 2010
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 Mirsky, Steve (2010). Scholars and Others Pay Tribute to "Mathematical Games" Columnist Martin Gardner  Scientific American, May 24, 2010
 Mulcahy, Colm (2013). Celebrations of Mind Honor Math’s Best Friend, Martin Gardner  Scientific American, October 29, 2013
 Mulcahy, Colm (2014). The Top 10 Martin Gardner Scientific American Articles  Scientific American, October 21, 2014
 Mulcahy, Colm (2017). Martin Gardner — The Best Friend Mathematics Ever Had  The Huffington Post, January 23, 2014
 Peterson, Ivars (2014).  Honoring a Century of Martin Gardner  in MAA Focus, the newsmagazine of the Mathematical Association of America, Vol. 34, No. 5, Oct/Nov 2014
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 Richards, Dana (2014). Math Games of Martin Gardner Still Spur Innovation  by Dana Richards & Colm Mulcahy, Scientific American, October 1, 2014
 Richards, Dana (2018). Martin Gardner, Annotator  G4G13, April 2018 - video
 Shermer, Michael  (1997). Martin Gardner 1914–2010: Founder of the Modern Skeptical Movement Michael Shermer interviews Martin Gardner, Skeptic Magazine, Vol 5, No. 2 (1997)
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参考资料

外部链接 
 

美国数学家
美國魔術師
美国科学作家
芝加哥大學校友
奥克拉荷马州人
美国怀疑论者
美國海軍士兵
趣味密码学家