{"id":826,"date":"2010-05-23T22:59:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2010-05-23T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T05:59:10","slug":"martin-gardner-will-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2010\/05\/martin-gardner-will-be-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Gardner will be missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first ran in to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=profile-of-martin-gardner\">Martin<\/a>&#8216;s work in back-issues of Scientific American. He stopped writing his Mathematical Games column in 1981, but my mentor Virgil Matheson had all the older issues and had a free hand in lending them out, albeit one-at-a-time. From my mentor, I also got the best math book I&#8217;ve ever read, <a title=\"Buy Calculus Made Easy on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312185480\/dubinkoinfo-20\">Calculus Made Easy<\/a> by Silvanus P. Thompson. A newer edition of the book came out in 1998&#8211;and who came on board as the 2nd author to revise and modernize the text? Yep, that&#8217;s who. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first ran in to Martin&#8216;s work in back-issues of Scientific American. He stopped writing his Mathematical Games column in 1981, but my mentor Virgil Matheson had all the older issues and had a free hand in lending them out, albeit one-at-a-time. From my mentor, I also got the best math book I&#8217;ve ever read,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[978,813,975,974,1177,976,979,977],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","tag-american","tag-calculus","tag-gardner","tag-martin","tag-math","tag-mentor","tag-puzzle","tag-scientific"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-dk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}