{"id":15521,"date":"2019-04-13T16:59:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=15521"},"modified":"2022-09-14T17:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T16:50:22","slug":"martin-gardner-mathemagician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acasinhadamatematica.pt\/?p=15521","title":{"rendered":"Martin Gardner: Mathemagician"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“The universe is almost like a huge magic trick,” says Martin Gardner<\/a>. Many world-renowned scientists, mathematicians and magicians agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured guests who have been influenced by Gardner include: magicians Max Maven<\/a> and Michael Weber<\/a>; mathematician and legendary computer hacker Bill Gosper<\/a>; Harvard professor and card wizard Persi Diaconnis<\/a>; renowned math genius John Horton Conway<\/a> of Princeton; and Ron Graham<\/a>, acrobat, juggler and chief scientist for AT&T Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gardner first got hooked on math as a young boy, when his father gave him a book on puzzles. Today, he is revered by some of the best brains in the worlds of mathematics and magic, largely through the influence of his monthly Scientific American<\/a><\/em> Mathematical Games<\/a> column. <\/p>\n\n\n\n