What Martin Gardner’s Puzzles Teach Us about Thinking

Martin Gardner (1914–2010) was a writer, magician, and mathematician who helped found the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (then called the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal, CSICOP) in 1976. Longtime Skeptical Inquirer readers may know him for his column “Notes of a Psi-Watcher” (later renamed “Notes of a Fringe-Watcher”), which debunked …

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