In the typically well-written style of The Economist's obituaries, here is their obituary for Martin Gardner - mathematician, author, reader, thinker and communicator...
http://www.economist.com/node/16271035
"WHERE literacy meets numeracy, enthusiasm meets scepticism and philosophy meets fun, there you find Martin Gardner. He earned his crust by writing, but his abiding interest was in maths, and his gift, or rather one of them, was to explain mathematical concepts in ways that made sense to non-mathematicians..."
Martin Gardner wrote The Annotated Alice amongst many other books.
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