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Martin Gardner

1914 - 2010

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Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914 – May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer with interests also encompassing magic, scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature – especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton. He was a leading authority on Lewis Carroll; The Annotated Alice, which incorporated the text of Carroll's two Alice books, was his most successful work and sold over a million copies. He had a lifelong interest in magic and illusion and in 1999, MAGIC magazine named him as one of the "100 Most Influential Magicians of the Twentieth Century". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Gardner has received more than 936,063 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Martin Gardner is the 1,637th most popular writer (down from 1,392nd in 2019), the 2,030th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,777th in 2019) and the 179th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 940k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Urantia
Controversial literature, Urantia Foundation, Urantia book
1995
Mathematical magic show
Mathematical recreations
1977
In the name of science
Dianetics, Miscellanea, Scientology
1952
Science, good, bad, and bogus
Miscellanea, Impostors and imposture, Science
1981
The Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions
Juvenile literature, Mathematical recreations, Jeux mathématiques
1959
The ambidextrous universe
Parity nonconservation, Symmetry (Physics), Particles (Nuclear physics)
1964

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Martin Gardner ranks 1,637 out of 7,302. Before him are Ludwig Börne, Fernando del Paso, Ivan Klíma, Péter Nádas, Ira Levin, and Avraham Stern. After him are Alphonse Allais, Servius Sulpicius Rufus, Christian Morgenstern, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Constantijn Huygens, and Andreas Gryphius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Martin Gardner ranks 84. Before him are Pietro Germi, Archduchess Adelheid of Austria, Nicolas de Staël, Yakov Zeldovich, Demetrios I of Constantinople, and Arthur Kennedy. After him are Richard Basehart, Bernard Malamud, Ferenc Fricsay, Edmund Conen, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, and Carlos Castillo Armas. Among people deceased in 2010, Martin Gardner ranks 70. Before him are Luis Corvalán, Ariel Ramírez, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Satoshi Kon, and Solomon Burke. After him are Iskandar of Johor, Fess Parker, Malcolm McLaren, Günter Behnisch, Alexander McQueen, and Teddy Scholten.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 2,030 out of 20,380. Before him are Solomon Burke (1936), Gabe Newell (1962), Elijah Muhammad (1897), Teri Hatcher (1964), Ira Levin (1929), and Pinetop Perkins (1913). After him are Bob Odenkirk (1962), Ashton Kutcher (1978), Irene Cara (1959), Marissa Mayer (1975), Michael W. Young (1949), and Brittany Murphy (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Martin Gardner ranks 179. Before him are Clarissa Pinkola Estés (1945), Natalie Clifford Barney (1876), Philip José Farmer (1918), Alice Walker (1944), Gore Vidal (1925), and Ira Levin (1929). After him are Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Upton Sinclair (1878), Fredric Jameson (1934), R. L. Stine (1943), Bernard Malamud (1914), and Lewis Mumford (1895).

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