[bonanova]

For many of us who love puzzles of the type posted in this Forum,

Martin Gardner was a hero. He died a week ago at age 95.

For 25 years he published the column Mathematical Games in

Scientific American and almost single-handedly popularized the

field of recreational mathematics in the U.S. He was also the author

of more than 70 books on the subject, many of which compile his

puzzles by subject and can be found for sale on-line.

More than just the puzzles themselves, though, was his amazing

ability to clearly pose them. As anyone who has posted in this

forum knows, including myself, it's an art to exclude the thousand-

and-one silly answers that a loosely worded puzzle can permit.

Read here some tributes written by admirers from around the world.

[Guest]

A sad day indeed. I had the privilege of attending the last Gathering for Gardner in Atlanta in March. I was down in Brazil on the evening of his death and got the phone call at midnight. The world is less skeptical and less mathemagical with him gone. I believe his archives will be housed at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Gord!

www.gamesbygord.blogspot.com (a proposed tribute to Martin Gardner)

[unreality]

Martin Gardner was basically my childhood hero It's terrible that I have to find out now about this,on brainden. We should do something to acknowledge him