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Scott Cram Inner circle 2678 Posts 
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Here's James Randi's tribute.
Quote: Martin Gardner has died. I have dreaded to type those words, and Martin would not have wanted to know that I’m so devastated at what I knew – day to day – had to happen very soon. I’m glad to report that his passing was painless and quick. That man was one of my giants, a very long-time friend of some 50 years or so. He was a delight, a very bright spot in my firmament, one to whom I could always turn to with a question or an idea, with any strange notion I could invent, and with any complaint or comment I could come up with. |
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Domino Magic Special user 999 Posts
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Sorry to hear about Martin!
It's all over Twitter and only one post on The Café. |
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thorndyke Regular user Canada 147 Posts
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This is rough, but for someone around for so long he certainly packed a lot in to his time here. Yesterday, while I was clearing out stuff for a magic club swap meet I happened across his book dealing with premonitions about the Titanic disaster. which I decided to keep and now I am glad I still have it. I saw him more of a skeptic than magician, but I imagine that's because most of hos work that I have seen is in that area.
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tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16543 Posts
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Thank you for letting me know and for the tribute. His passing is a great loss to our art and its a very sad day. He was a real bright fellow.
May he rest in peace.
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
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gmeister Inner circle 1588 Posts
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Martin Gardner will be eulogized both within the magic communities and without as befits one of the true Renaissance men. It's amazing how many fields list works by him as seminal. I had occasion recently to turn to his magnificent ANNOTATED ALICE to glean some of his penetrating comments on symbolic/mathematical logic. It just reminded me of how great and all embracing his knowledge was, something matched only by his creativity.
He was truly one of a kind and his parting will be deeply felt even as his life will be joyously celebrated. gary |
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landmark Inner circle within a triangle 5194 Posts
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He gave so much, influenced so many with his wide-ranging curiosity.
Thanks for all, Mr. Gardner.
Click here to get Gerald Deutsch's Perverse Magic: The First Sixteen Years
All proceeds to Open Heart Magic charity. |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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He leaves behind an invisible city where paths he crafted of words permit us to travel from our mundane world up, across Plato's Divided Line, into and around some of the wonders discovered in mathematics.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Ben Harris V.I.P. The Land Down Under 2126 Posts
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It's a time to cry.
Bon Voyage, Martin. Thank you for everything. We'll miss you so much. Ben
+Inventor of the world famous Floating Match+
+Author: Machinations (Vanishing Inc, 2020)+ EVERYTHING BEN HARRIS |
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NJJ Inner circle 6437 Posts
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I don't think I've ever been this sad about a broken wand.
His Alice in Wonderland is my favourite book. :( 
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Sealegs Inner circle The UK, Portsmouth 2597 Posts
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I only knew of him from his maths, magic and scientifc writings. I shal miss his contributions in all these areas.
Thank you Martin and goodbye.
Neal Austin
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts
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It's rare to know a man who accomplished as much as he. We stew and mull and squeeze our brains to come up with whatever little thing we do...and then there was Mr. Gardner's body of work. What a mind!
Me and Mr. Herrer are having some quiet bourbon tonight. Sad.
We dance an invisible dance to music they cannot hear.
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Nosher Loyal user 261 Posts
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Vale, Martin Gardner. Man of letters - and numbers.
Escapemaster-in-chief from all sorts of houdingplaces - Finnegans Wake
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Magiguy Inner circle Seattle, WA 5472 Posts
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Gardner (much like Jerry Andrus) was a man that I thought would live forever. It never occurred to me that he might one day die, and now that he has I actually find myself not knowing what to think or feel. I'm actually (surprisingly) shocked, and certainly saddened by the loss.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts
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Martin Gardner gave me my first truly aesthetic moment in mathematics.
It was 1977 or 1978; I was in high school. One day I was sitting in the magazine section of our school library, hoping to catch a few words with a young lady that I liked. She hadn't arrived so I picked up Scientific American while I waited. Martin's column that month was about proof by contradiction; Martin used the formal name reductio ad absurdum. The idea is simple and beautiful. If you assume that A is true, and then follow a series of valid logical steps and reach a contradiction, then you know that A must be false. I had never seen this before and there was something absolutely magical about Martin's presentation. Once the groundwork was done, Martin was able to completely blow me away. He traced through Euclid's proof that there are an infinite number of prime numbers. Euclid's proof is ingenious. Assume that there are only a finite number of prime numbers. If this is so, one of them must be largest, call it P. I'll leave the rest for now. But it is fair to say that that column changed my life. There is an old saying that when the student is ready a teacher will appear. Thank you Martin Gardner for appearing in my life at just the right time. John
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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entity Inner circle Canada 5060 Posts
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Martin was a kind and generous man, always willing to listen to and share ideas with me, without ego.
Very sad news. - entity
email: tomebaxter@icloud.com
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Patrick Redford Inner circle Michigan 1751 Posts
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Ugh. I am without the right words at the moment.
Martin was an amazing and inspiring man. He will be missed. I am only happy to have had the pleasure of speaking with him by phone only a couple of times. |
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TomasB Inner circle Sweden 1144 Posts
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Very sad hearing about this. I'll miss that extraordinary guy.
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The Futurist Veteran user 331 Posts
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Martin Gardner's books were what got me, a recreational-maths fan, into magic and mentalism in the first place. He had an immense talent for exposition and for making complex concepts accessible. I'm very sad to hear of his passing, and my sympathies to his family and friends at this time.
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cairo Elite user 406 Posts
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Sad to hear of the passing of one of our very greatest contributers. My heart goes out to his family an friends.
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