在1957年至1986年之间,马丁·加德纳(Martin Gardner)为本杂志编写了数学游戏专栏,共有297份.在那段时间里,他成为了世界上最多产,最著名的娱乐性数学普及者.他的粉丝们仍然崇拜他是一种巫师,他想起了一场无尽的拼图,游戏和谜语,建立在数学思想上,这些想法经常触发违反直觉的曲折.He may have lived as he wrote: after visiting Gardner's office, in the attic of the writer's home, the late mathematician John Horton Conway remarked that "it was f