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May 02, 2006
Puzzling Models
From a report on a puzzling celebration for Martin Gardner, comes a unexpectedly eloquent description of the attraction of models, mental and computational.
This is also a legacy that Mr. [Martin] Gardner leaves to generations of researchers, teachers and entertainers: don't try to understand the whole world at once. Take only a small part of it. Or better yet: invent your own universe in which there are very few elements and very few rules — a game, a puzzle, a theory. These circumscribed and artificial worlds are like sheets of paper subject to the rules of folding, yet they can yield remarkable results having almost uncanny power.
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