The Hocus Pocus of Martin Gardner A Review of Martin Gardner’s Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner

Quantum hocus-pocus

The claims made in a manifesto resulting in the European quantum technologies flagship initiative in quantum technology and similar enterprises are taken as a starting point to critically review some potential quantum resources, such as coherent superposition and entanglement, and their dormant usefulness for parallelism and communication. Claims of absolute, irreducible (non-epistemic) randomn...

Martin Gardner and Wythoff ’ s Game

What’s a question to your answer? We will not settle this puzzle here, yet we’ll taste it. But let’s begin at the beginning, namely in 1907, when Willem Abraham Wythoff [7], a Dutch mathematician, invented the game we analyze here, explained vividly by Martin Gardner in [5]. The game is played with two piles of tokens, each pile containing an arbitrary number of tokens. A move consists of eithe...

The Uniqueness of Martin Buber

AT THIS NEAR JUNCTURE of the two millennia, Martin Buber’s philosophy of dialogue, contained in his seminal work, I and Thou (1923), projects itself upon our consciousness with a profound awareness of its prophetic implications. Buber in his milieu was concerned with the eclipse of God, the encroachments of science, and the alienation of the individual from his spiritual essence. Newly develope...

The Cameron-Martin theorem

Martin Rama

Tunisia’s unemployment rate has been among the highest in the world for almost two decades. This article claims that such a high rate reflects measurement problems rather than labor market inefficiency. After discussing the reasons why unemployment rates may not be comparable across countries and reviewing the tools that are available to analyze unemployment in a specific country, the article p...