Editing Martin Gardner (section)

===Middle age===
In 1950, he wrote an article in the ''[[Antioch Review]]'' entitled "The Hermit Scientist".<ref>Gardner, Martin, "The Hermit Scientist", ''[[Antioch Review]]'', Winter 1950–1951, pp. 447–457.</ref>  It was one of Gardner's earliest articles about [[junk science]], and in 1952 a much-expanded version became his first published book: ''In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present''. The year 1960 saw the original edition of the best-selling book of his career, ''The Annotated Alice''.<ref name=Burstein_2011>Burstein (2011)</ref>

In 1957 Gardner started writing a column for ''Scientific American'' called "Mathematical Games".  It ran for over a quarter century and dealt with the subject of [[recreational mathematics]]. The "Mathematical Games" column became the most popular feature of the magazine and was the first thing that many readers turned to.<ref>Hofstadter (2010): There were thousands of such people spread all around the world{{snd}}mathematicians, physicists, philosophers, computer scientists, and on and on{{snd}}who thought of Martin Gardner's column not as merely a feature of that great magazine ''Scientific American'', but as its very heart and soul.</ref> In September 1977 ''Scientific American'' acknowledged the prestige and popularity of Gardner's column by moving it from the back to the very front of the magazine.<ref>Demaine (2008): p. 24</ref>