Most
of all, it is a celebration of the life and work of Martin Gardner.
Martin
Gardner, born on this date in 1914, “teased” brains with math
puzzles in Scientific American magazine for decades, and he also
wrote more than 70 books. Many of his books were compendiums of
puzzles, but not all; he wrote Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus,
Martin Gardner's Table Magic, The Whys of a Philosophical
Scrivener, The Annotated Alice,*
and many other non-puzzle books. 
*
By the way, if you're wondering why a mathematical puzzles creator
wrote a book about Alice in Wonderland
(and, it turns out, became a bit of an expert on Alice's
author Lewis Carroll), remember that Lewis Carroll was a pen name for Charles Dodgson, a mathematician and math teacher
at Christ Church College, part of Oxford University.
Celebrate!
Have
some fun with Martin Gardner (and Martin Gardner-esque) puzzles on
Puzzle Playground.
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on this date:
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