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Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Video games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and released more than seventy literature on topics as diverse as magic, philosophy, religion, pseudoscience, and Alice in Wonderland. His informal, recreational method of mathematics delighted countless readers and inspired many to pursue professions in mathematics and the sciences. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a disarmingly candid self-portrait of the person evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould called our "one brightest beacon" for the defense of rationality and good knowledge against mysticism and anti-intellectualism. Gardner can take readers from his childhood in Oklahoma to his university days at the College or university of Chicago, his service in the navy, and his diverse and wide-ranging professional pursuits. Before learning to be a columnist for Scientific American, he was a caseworker in Chicago during the Great Depressive disorder, a reporter for the Tulsa Tribune, an editor for Humpty Dumpty, and a short-story article writer for Esquire, among other careers. Gardner shares vibrant anecdotes about the countless interesting people he met and mentored, and voices strong views on the subject matter that subject to him most, from his love of mathematics to his uncompromising position against pseudoscience. For Gardner, our mathematically organised world is undiluted hocus-pocus - a marvelous enigma, quite simply. Undiluted Hocus-PocusM offers a rare, intimate take a look at Gardner's life and work, and the experience that formed both.
