CoM | Shuffling Polyominoes
Monday June 21, 2021– Live Presentation with Erika Roldán – At noon Atlanta Time (12:00 pm EDT) Please join us starting 10 minutes before the session using the following button. …
CoM | Optimal Pentagonal Tilings
Friday May 21, 2021– Live Presentation with Frank Morgan – For published CoM presentations please visit the G4G YouTube channel Optimal Pentagonal Tilings In 2001 Thomas Hales proved that hexagons …
G4G’s Celebration of Mind April 2021
Sunday April 18 to Saturday April 24, 2021 – 21 Free Online Events for All Curious Minds – Thank you to the hundreds of people who participated remotely. For published CoM …
CoM | A Periodic Table of Polyform Puzzles
Sunday March 21, 2021– Live Presentation with Kate Jones – For published CoM presentations please visit the G4G YouTube channel A Periodic Table of Polyform Puzzles Kate Jones defines, illustrates …
CoM | Computer Graphics in Curved Space
Sunday February 21, 2021– Live Presentation with Steve Trettel – For published CoM presentations please visit the G4G YouTube channel Visiting the Thurston Geometries: Computer Graphics in Curved Space A beautiful observation …
Nancy Blachman Scholarship Fund
Nancy Blachman has given a great deal to Gathering 4 Gardner over the past four and a half years in her role as Chair of G4G. After G4G founder, Tom …
CoM | Maps of Strange Worlds: Beyond the Four-Color Theorem
Thursday January 21, 2021– Live Presentation with Susan Goldstine – For published CoM presentations please visit the G4G YouTube channel In 1852, a math student posed a deceptively simple-sounding question: if …
CoM | Performing Magic on the Virtual Stage
Monday December 21, 2020 – Live Show and Discussion with Nathaniel Segal – For this and other presentations visit the G4G YouTube channel In this interactive talk that is part math lesson, …
G4G14 Conference Postponed (again)
*** DECEMBER 2020 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT *** As you may know, we rescheduled the 14th Gathering 4 Gardner conference (G4G14) due to COVID-19. Unfortunately, it now seems clear that even delaying …
CoM | Ken Knowlton
Saturday November 21, 2020 – Live Interview with Ken Knowlton – For this and other presentations visit the G4G YouTube channel Gathering 4 Gardner’s Celebration of Mind is proud to present …
G4G’s Celebration of Mind 2020
Saturday October 17 to Friday October 23, 2020 – 21 Free Online Events for All Curious Minds – Presentations at noon, 4:00 pm, and 8:00 pm EDT Thank you to the hundreds …
G4G14 | Featured Presenters
G4G is pleased to announce three Featured Presenters for the 2021 Gathering conference. Each presenter will give two talks: one private talk as part of the regular programing of the …
Remembering Elwyn Berlekamp
Elwyn Berlekamp departed peacefully on the evening of Tuesday, April 9, 2019. He was a dear friend to many of us and one of the founders, together with Tom Rodgers …
Celebrating Ivan Moscovich
Ivan Moscovich was honored at ChiTAG with a lifetime achievement award. Ivan has been a regular attendee of G4G. He was also a personal friend of Martin Gardner. We congratulate him …
Remembering Robert Abbott
It is with great sadness that G4G notes the death of longtime G4G community member Robert Abbott (Mar 2, 1933 – Feb 20, 2018).
Remembering Markus Götz
It is with great sadness that G4G notes the death of G4G community member Markus Götz (Apr 10, 1974 – Jan 7, 2018) from Munich, Germany. He was a puzzle …
Remembering Marc G. Pelletier
It is with great sadness that G4G notes the death of longtime G4G community member Marc G. Pelletier (Aug 4, 1958 – Nov 6, 2017) from the USA. If you …
An Interview with Ernő Rubik
G4G is pleased to announce the long anticipated release of an interview done a year ago with Professor Ernő Rubik. The Hungarian inventor of the iconic Rubik’s Cube was one of …
G4G14 Save the Date
It’s basically pi-day plus an epsilon of 11 days. Make sure to save the date for G4G14 which will be held in Atlanta, March 25–29, 2020; The offsite is planned …
An Interview with Manjul Bhargava
G4G is pleased to announce that Professor Manjul Bhargava of Princeton University will make a public presentation in Atlanta, on “Poetry, Drumming, and Mathematics” (2:30 pm Sunday, April 15, 2018, at Fulton County Central …