“It is a melancholy pleasure that what may be [Martin] Gardner’s last published piece, a review of Amir Alexander’s Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs & the Rise of Modern Mathematics, will appear next week in our June issue.”
– Roger Kimball of The New Criterion, May 23, 2010.
The Gardner piece is now online. It contains…
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Gardner’s tribute to Galois— “Galois was a thoroughly obnoxious nerd,
suffering from what today would be called a ‘personality disorder.’ His anger was paranoid and unremitting.” |