… (and one other guy). And Gardner died on Saturday.

He was born in October 1914. So that made him …

Do the math.

Here is a sampling of his works. He published dozens of books, IIRC, so this is a very loose sample.

• Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games
• When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That
• Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi: Martin Gardner’s New Mathematical Diversions (The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library)
• Entertaining Science Experiments with Everyday Objects
• Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science)
• Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
• Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Test Your Code Breaking Skills)
• Relativity Simply Explained