Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics writer whose 'Mathematical Games' column in Scientific American ran for 25 years and whose books — including 'The Ambidextrous Universe' — made mathematical paradoxes accessible to mass audiences.
Gardner's 'Ambidextrous Universe' posed the question of whether a mirror-reversed universe would be physically distinguishable from ours — directly paralleling Nolan's interest in mirror symmetries, palindromes, and the problem of orientation in Tenet.
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