If I had to choose one person who was most responsible for my continuing interest in mathematics, it would be Martin Gardner (through his Scientific American column “Mathematical Games”. This was one of the features that I most looked forward to every month, a new adventure, often into some branch of math I'd never even heard of before. His columns made math both fun and relevant to other things I was interested in.
Martin Gardner died Saturday at age 95. Millions around the world will miss him, but his 50 books and hundreds of columns in Scientific American, Skeptical Inquirer and numerous anthologies survive him...
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