2026-09-07 · designer-study
Inside Martin Gardner's Philosophy — Turning What He Didn't Know Into Care for the Reader
A philosophy graduate with no mathematics degree wrote a puzzle column for 25 years and carried everything from pentominoes to the Game of Life out into the world. He kept saying he was "strictly a journalist." Reading across his interviews and autobiography for Martin Gardner's philosophy, obsessions, regrets, dilemmas and influences.