Gary Antonick
{{short description|American journalist and recreational mathematician}}
Gary Antonick ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|n|t|ə|n|ɪ|k}} {{Respell|AN|tə|nik}};{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCWx7Dr2gg|title=The Neuroscience of Curiosity by Gary Antonick|website=YouTube |date=22 October 2014 |accessdate=22 May 2020}} 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.
Education and career
Antonick has a BS in Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School.[https://web.stanford.edu/~antonick/ Gary Antonick] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129102017/http://web.stanford.edu/~antonick/ |date=2019-01-29 }} Stanford University Human Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute In 2019, he taught a course at Stanford University, titled Math in the Wild: Using Mathematical Thinking to Solve Messy Real-World Problems, alongside Keith Devlin.[https://www.eduexplora.com/beyondtherules/ Gary Antonick: MBA, Stanford University & Harvard University]
Numberplay
From December 2009 to October 2016 Antonick wrote the puzzle themed "Numberplay" column for The New York Times.[https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/31/crosswords/gary-antonick-numberplay-farewell.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fnumberplay&action=click&contentCollection=crosswords®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection 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. The puzzles generally involved math or logic problems.[https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/squareable/?mtrref=www.google.com%20Numberplay:%20The%20Squareable%20Puzzle About numberplay, the puzzle suite for math lovers of all ages] by Gary Antonick, The New York Times, April 8, 2013 They came from many sources, and many were descended from columns by the celebrated Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner.[http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/gardner-impromptu/ Martin Gardner’s Impromptu] By Gary Antonick, New York Times, November 30, 2015 He often wrote about Gardner and considered him to be the leading popularizer of recreational mathematics.[https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/07/gardner-2/ 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[https://www.maa.org/news/math-news/martin-gardner-hated-doing-puzzles-says-diaconis Martin Gardner Hated Doing Puzzles, Says Diaconis] Mathematical Association of America, October 15, 2014 Conferences called Gathering 4 Gardner are held every two years to celebrate Gardner's legacy, and Antonick has twice spoken at these events.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLCWx7Dr2gg The Neuroscience of Curiosity] video by Gary Antonick, G4G Celebration published on Oct 22, 2014[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uc5xzFXm4c Projectile on an Incline-No Calculation] video by Gary Antonick, G4G Celebration, Published on Jul 19, 2018 He also supports the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival.{{Cite web |url=https://www.jrmf.org/support-jrmf/sponsors-and-partners/ |title=Friends of JRMF |access-date=2019-04-23 |archive-date=2019-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415173301/https://www.jrmf.org/support-jrmf/sponsors-and-partners/ |url-status=dead }}
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,[https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/erdos/ The Improbable Life of Paul Erdős] in Numberplay The New York Times, March 25, 2013 or simply to report a breakthrough in mathematics or game theory.[https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/brilliant-go/ Google Artificial Intelligence Beats Expert at Go Game] by Gary Antonick, February 1, 2016
"Numberplay" columns led to five sequences originated by AntonickOEIS sequence numbers A227050, A051732, A247653, A247654, and A240567 being listed in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)[https://oeis.org/search?q=Antonick&sort=&language=english&go=Search Sequences originated by Gary Antonick] On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
English Channel Swim
On August 8, 1988, Antonick swam the English Channel, starting from Dover, England, and finishing in France 8 hours and 46 minutes later. {{cite web |title=Photograph of Gary Antonick U. S. A. |url=https://www.channelswimmingdover.org.uk/content/photo/photograph-of-gary-antonick-u-s-a |access-date=2023-06-15 |website=Channel Swimming Dover}}
References
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External links
- [https://muckrack.com/gary-antonick/articles list of articles by Gary Antonick in the New York Times]
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Category:University of Michigan School of Education alumni
Category:Harvard Business School alumni