Martin Gardner, 1914-2010. I have the very fondest memories of sitting in the basement, poring over Scientific Americans from the seventies, and always reading Mathematical Games. They're coming out with compilation volumes, which is as welcome as it is overdue. If nothing else, I have Gardner to thank for introducing me to cellular automata, one of my favorite mathematical hobbies. RIP.
An Occasional (as opposed to a Periodical) font of infalliable wisdom concerning, well, mostly boardgames, books, and life as a navel-gazing pseudointellecutal thirty-year-old hip-deep in grad school.
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