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The foremost advocates of recreational mathematics have included:
- Lewis Carroll, author, mathematician and puzzlist
- John Horton Conway, mathematician and inventor of Conway's Game of life
- Henry Dudeney, regarded as England's greatest puzzlist
- Martin Gardner, author of Mathematical Games, a long running column in Scientific American
- Sam Loyd, regarded as America's greatest puzzlist
- Joseph Madachy, long-time editor of Journal of Recreational Mathematics, author of Mathematics on Vacation and Madachy's Mathematical Recreations
- Clifford A. Pickover, author of numerous books on recreational mathematics
- Marilyn vos Savant, author of "Ask Marilyn", a long running column in PARADE
- Malba Tahan, pseudonym of Júlio César de Mello e Souza, author of several books figuring recreational mathematics, including The Man Who Counted
- Yakov Perelman, Russian author of many popular science books, including Mathematics Can Be Fun
- D. R. Kaprekar, Indian mathematician
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