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From: Ken S. Tucker on 23 May 2010 03:11
The SOB deserved to live so long....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_gardner

Martin wrote "Relativity for the Million".

With my meager allowance, in early High School, I forked the
$1 or so for that paper back version, and it instilled some ability
to understand Relativity. It served as a springboard and overview.

RIP Mr. Gardner.
Ken S. Tucker
From: eon on 23 May 2010 05:11
On May 23, 9:10 am, "Ken S. Tucker" <dynam...(a)vianet.on.ca> wrote:
> The SOB deserved to live so long....
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_gardner
>
> Martin wrote "Relativity for the Million".
>
> With my meager allowance, in early High School, I forked the
> $1 or so for that paper back version, and it instilled some ability
> to understand Relativity. It served as a springboard and overview.
>
> RIP Mr. Gardner.
> Ken S. Tucker

understanding what !?

you must be joking, i dont understand relativity for free
From: Mathal on 23 May 2010 10:26
On May 23, 12:11 am, "Ken S. Tucker" <dynam...(a)vianet.on.ca> wrote:
> The SOB deserved to live so long....
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_gardner
>
> Martin wrote "Relativity for the Million".
>
> With my meager allowance, in early High School, I forked the
> $1 or so for that paper back version, and it instilled some ability
> to understand Relativity. It served as a springboard and overview.
>
> RIP Mr. Gardner.
> Ken S. Tucker

I too was delighted by Martin's writing. He had an amazing mind
that absorbed and distilled everything he took in to produce gems. In
High School in the 60's my father would bring home Scientific American
magazines a fellow worker passed on to him and my father passed on to
me. My favorite section was "Mathematical Games" by Martin covering
all aspects of math in an entertaining and informative way, always
with math puzzles associated with the subject.
He also wrote "The Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll", in which he
presents 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' with
footnotes explaining the math and subtle humor embedded in the stories
written by a noted mathematician of his own era-Lewis Carroll.
RIP Mr.Gardner
Mathal
From: Ken S. Tucker on 23 May 2010 12:37
On May 23, 7:26 am, Mathal <mathmusi...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 23, 12:11 am, "Ken S. Tucker" <dynam...(a)vianet.on.ca> wrote:
>
> > The SOB deserved to live so long....
>
> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100523/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_gardner
>
> > Martin wrote "Relativity for the Million".
>
> > With my meager allowance, in early High School, I forked the
> > $1 or so for that paper back version, and it instilled some ability
> > to understand Relativity. It served as a springboard and overview.
>
> > RIP Mr. Gardner.
> > Ken S. Tucker
>
> I too was delighted by Martin's writing. He had an amazing mind
> that absorbed and distilled everything he took in to produce gems. In
> High School in the 60's my father would bring home Scientific American
> magazines a fellow worker passed on to him and my father passed on to
> me. My favorite section was "Mathematical Games" by Martin covering
> all aspects of math in an entertaining and informative way, always
> with math puzzles associated with the subject.
> He also wrote "The Annotated Alice - Lewis Carroll", in which he
> presents 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' with
> footnotes explaining the math and subtle humor embedded in the stories
> written by a noted mathematician of his own era-Lewis Carroll.
> RIP Mr.Gardner
> Mathal

Sunday AM's (our family being non religious) would instead
frequent Gardner's math puzzles as a sort of get together.
Sometimes there was a psycho/moral slant to them.
Ken
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gardner




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