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ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz ("Colin the Mathmo") wrote:

Taking a moment to remember Martin Gardner on what would have been his one hundred and eleventh birthday.

Thank you Martin for *so* many fabulous ideas, for connecting so many people to each other and to those ideas, and for a wonderful afternoon in your company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%5FGardner

Ron Graham said of him, "Martin has turned thousands of children into mathematicians and thousands of mathematicians into children."