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<div>{{Person|image=false|name=Martin Gardner|born=October 21, 1914, Tulsa, Oklahoma|died=May 22, 2010, Norman, Oklahoma|res=United States|nat=US|alma=UChicago}}<br />
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'''Martin Gardner''' was a mathematician, writer, and ''Scientific American'' columnist, where his 'Mathematical Games' lasted from 1956 to 1981 until ''Douglas Hofstadter'' took over.<br />
His sciam column : ''The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game "life"'' <ref> (Scientific American 223 (October 1970): 120-123)</ref> was the first to deal with the [[game of Life|game]], introducing rules, pattern names and challenges - one of them, funded by [[Conway]] himself, led to the discovery of the first [[gun]].<br />
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His books deal with maths, games and creeds. [[Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements]] contains all his columns about Conway's life.<br />
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== Patterns first published by Gardner ==<br />
Most of these patterns were obviously found by Conway himself. <!--or his [[MIT group]]{{cite}}--><br />
*arch ([[pi]])<br />
*[[beacon]]<br />
*[[beehive]]<br />
*[[blinker]]<br />
*[[block]]<br />
*[[clock]]<br />
*[[cross]]<br />
*[[glider]] <br />
*[[honey farm]] <br />
*Latin cross<br />
*letter H<br />
*[[pentadecathlon]]<br />
*[[pinwheel]]<br />
*[[pulsar]] 'CP 48-56-72'<br />
*[[quilt]]<br />
*[[R-pentomino]] <br />
*[[spaceship]]s <br />
*swastika<br />
*[[toad]]<br />
*[[traffic light]]s<br />
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== References ==<br />
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