On May 26, 5:22*pm, Jim Wilkins wrote:
On May 26, 6:01*pm, Gunner Asch wrote:

On Wed, 26 May 2010 11:14:14 -0700, "Bill Noble"
wrote:
a real loss

Who?
Gunner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gardner

His column was one of the better reasons to read Scientific American,
back when it was worth reading.

jsw

Funny that he never had any formal math education past high school!