Martin Gardner (1914–2010)

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1. Martin Gardner

   Author of Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-Of-Mind from Scientif, New mathematical diversions from Scientific American, The Flight of Peter Fromm

2. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

3. Richard Dawkins

   Author of The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, Climbing Mount Improbable

4. Raymond M. Smullyan

   Author of What is the Name of this Book?, The Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Gödel's Great Discovery, Alice in Puzzle-Land
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5. L. Frank Baum

   Author of Ozma of Oz, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Glinda of Oz

6. Lewis Carroll

   Author of The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll, Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic, Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles
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7. Ian Stewart

   Author of Flatterland, The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes, Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer?
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8. Dorothy L. Sayers

   Author of Busman's Honeymoon, The Nine Tailors, Unnatural Death

9. Clifford A. Pickover

   Author of Wonders of Numbers: Adventures in Mathematics, Mind, and Meaning, Computers and the imagination: Visual adventures beyond the edge, The Loom of God: Mathematical Tapestries at the Edge of Time

10. James Randi

    Author of The Faith Healers, Conjuring: Being a Definitive History of the Venerable Arts of Sorcery, Prestidigitation, Wizardry, Deception, & Chicanery and of the Mountebanks & Scoundrels Who have Perpetrated these Subterfuges on a Bewildered Public, in short, MAGIC!, Magic of Uri Geller

11. Richard Feynman

    Author of What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher, The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

12. Michael Shermer

    Author of Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time, How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

13. Douglas Hofstadter

    Author of Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul, Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern

14. Daniel C. Dennett

    Author of Consciousness Explained, Freedom Evolves, Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology

15. Carl Sagan

    Author of The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, The Dragons of Eden, Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science

16. Rudy Rucker

    Author of Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, Master of Space and Time, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life,

17. A. K. Dewdney

    Author of The Planiverse, The Armchair Universe: An Exploration of Computer Worlds, The Turing Omnibus: 61 Excursions in Computer Science
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18. John Allen Paulos

    Author of Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper, Beyond Numeracy

19. P. C. W. Davies

    Author of God and the New Physics, The Last Three Minutes : Conjectures about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe, The Matter Myth: Dramatic Discoveries That Challenge Our Understanding of Physical Reality

20. Jacob Grimm

    Author of The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Fully Illustrated, The Annotated Brothers Grimm