馬丁加德納（，）。美國名聲顯赫的業餘數學大師、魔術師、懷疑論者，他是《科學美國人》雜誌上一個曾開設了 20 多年的數學遊戲專欄作者。他沒有數學博士學位，但是他的作品能讓廣大普通讀者和數學家也為之著迷。馬丁加德納才華橫溢，著作頗豐，據不完全統計，迄今已寫了五十本以上的書。他曾多次獲獎，包括美國物理學會及美國鋼鐵基金會的優秀科學作者獎，臺灣的出版社也以「葛登能」、「葛老爹」為名翻譯他的著作。 生平 他生於美國俄克拉荷馬州的塔爾薩（Tulsa）。1936 年，畢業於芝加哥大學哲學系。在進入大學之前，他是一個新教原教旨主義者。透過理性的思考，在大學期間他的信仰發生了變化，後來他成了一位哲學有神論者。畢業後他在家鄉的《民友報》擔任記者。二戰期間，他成為美國海軍的隨軍記者。戰後，他繼續從事自由撰稿人和編輯工作。他的主要工作是 1957 年到 1981 年在《科學美國人》的長期專欄作家，他所包辦的 數學遊戲 專欄，成為該雜誌的一個 特色產品。 被翻譯為中文的作品 《跳出思路的陷阱》 《密碼傳奇》 《人人都能懂得的相對論》 《表裡不一的宇宙》 《好科學、壞科學、偽科學》 《不可思議的矩陣博士》 《數學狂歡節》 《啊哈？靈機一動》 《從驚訝到思考 數學悖挑奇景》 《矛盾集錦》 原名：Paradox Box 《數學推敲》 《開啟魔數箱》 延伸閱讀 Albers Don 2008 The Martin Gardner Interview in five parts with MAA Editorial Director Don Albers fifteeneightyfour the blog of Cambridge University Press AMS Notices 2004 Interview with Martin Gardner Notices of the AMS Vol 52 No 6 JuneJuly 2005 pp 602611 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 Gardners Undiluted HocusPocus 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 Gardners 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 Gardners 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 Gardner Martin 2010 A Quarter Century of Recreational Mathematics by Martin Gardner Scientific American May 29 2010 Gardner Martin 2013 Undiluted HocusPocus 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 GardnerMagician Gould Stephen Jay 1982 The Quack Detector The New York Review of Books February 4 1982 Groth George 1983 Review of Gardners 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 Kim Scott 2014 Martin Gardner May 18 2014 Scott Kim Website Klarner David A 1998 Mathematical Recreations A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner Dover Publications New York pp 140166 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 AugustSeptember 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 Martin GardnerMathematician official website 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 Maths 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 OctNov 2014 Princeton University Press Reviews of Undiluted HocusPocus The Autobiography of Martin Gardner 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 19142010 Founder of the Modern Skeptical Movement Michael Shermer interviews Martin Gardner Skeptic Magazine Vol 5 No 2 1997 Teller 2014 Undiluted HocusPocus by Martin Gardner The New York Times Sunday Book Review January 3 2014 參考資料 外部連結 Category 美國數學家 Category 美國魔術師 Category 美國科學作家 Category 芝加哥大學校友 Category 奧克拉荷馬州人 Category 美國懷疑論者 Category 美國海軍士兵 Category 趣味密碼學家