Simon Singh
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239 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2013
last heard Jan 2015
Simon Singh’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's a lovely little reverse ball.
Schürrle, oh!
Andre Schürrle, it's seven!
My number is 100.
because 2014 marked the centenary of the birth of Martin Gardner.
There may be people scratching their heads and thinking, well, who's Martin Gardner and what's the big deal?
Loyal, more or less, listeners.
They know who Martin is, but just remind us.
He's a hero to so many people.
He was one of the top hundred magicians of the 20th century.
He's a hero amongst rationalists and amongst mathematicians.
Percy Diaconis, who's a great statistician, once said of Martin Gardner... And also a great magician.
And also a great magician as well, absolutely, yes.
He said that Martin Gardner turned thousands of children into mathematicians, but he also turned thousands of mathematicians back into children.
Because he wrote these wonderful columns and came up with these wonderful puzzles that inspired people to become mathematicians.
But they were so playful that if you're a mathematician, it just made you smile like a 10-year-old.
So he's my hero.
And this 100th year has been an opportunity to remind people who don't know about Martin Gardner what a great and wonderful guy he was.
Fractals.
All these great ideas that we talk about in kind of popular maths were first broken in his column, which he ran for 25 years in Scientific American.
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