Gary Antonick

Gary Antonick ((/ˈæntənɪk/ AN-tə-nik[1]; born February 11, 1963) is an American journalist and recreational mathematician who for many years wrote a puzzle-based column called "Numberplay" for the New York Times.[2]

Education and career

Antonick has a BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.[3]

Numberplay

From December 2009 to October 2016 Antonick wrote the puzzle themed "Numberplay" column for the New York Times.[4] The puzzles generally involved math or logic problems.[2] They came from many sources, and many were descended from columns by the celebrated Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner.[5] He often wrote about Gardner and considered him to be the leading popularizer of recreational mathematics.[6][7] Conferences called Gathering 4 Gardner are held every two years to celebrate Gardner's legacy, and Antonick has twice spoken at these events.[8][9] He also supports the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival.[10]

Among the many classic problems of recreational mathematics featured in "Numberplay" are The Prisoner's Dilemma, The Two Child Problem, The Monty Hall Problem, The Monkey and the Coconuts, The Two-cube Calendar, and The Zebra Puzzle. Sometimes "Numberplay" was used to celebrate other mathematicians such as Paul Erdős,[11] or simply to report a breakthrough in mathematics or game theory.[12]

"Numberplay" columns led to five sequences originated by Antonick[13] being listed in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)[14]

gollark: æææææææææææææææ
gollark: Hardcode pi as 3, use base pi, have a special "pi" value...
gollark: They're used in fancy maths things, but I don't do those maths things so meh.
gollark: So I should rewrite osmarks.tk in FORTRAN?
gollark: So you admit it. π = 3. CHECKMATE, ATHEISTS!

References
  1. "The Neuroscience of Curiosity by Gary Antonick". Retrieved 22 May 2020.
  2. About numberplay, the puzzle suite for math lovers of all ages by Gary Antonick, The New York Times, April 8, 2013
  3. Gary Antonick Stanford University Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute
  4. A Numberplay Farewell Gary Antonick, New York Times, October 31, 2016. Outgoing writer of The Times’s Numberplay column, shares a lesson learned from seven years of puzzle-solving.
  5. Martin Gardner’s Impromptu By Gary Antonick, New York Times, November 30, 2015
  6. Martin Gardner’s The Monkey and the Coconuts "Martin Gardner, the American science and math writer who popularized the notion of recreational mathematics." in Numberplay The New York Times:, October 7, 2013
  7. Martin Gardner Hated Doing Puzzles, Says Diaconis Mathematical Association of America, October 15, 2014
  8. The Neuroscience of Curiosity video by Gary Antonick, G4G Celebration published on Oct 22, 2014
  9. Projectile on an Incline-No Calculation video by Gary Antonick, G4G Celebration, Published on Jul 19, 2018
  10. Friends of JRMF
  11. The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős in Numberplay The New York Times, March 25, 2013
  12. Google Artificial Intelligence Beats Expert at Go Game by Gary Antonick, February 1, 2016
  13. OEIS sequence numbers A227050, A051732, A247653, A247654, and A240567
  14. Sequences originated by Gary Antonick On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
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