Gardner M. New Mathematical Diversions

The University of Chicago Press, 1988 The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles & Games Paradoxes and Paperfolding, Moebius Variations and Mnemonics, Fallacies, Brain-Teasers, Magic Squares, Topological Curiosities, Probability, and a variety of ancient and new problems, from Polyonzinoes and Hex to Four-Dimensional Ticktacktoe, and including, of course, solutions. With a new afterword by the author, and an extensive new bibliography

Published in the United States of America by The Mathematical Association of America. Copyright O 1965, 1966, 1967, 1975, 1989 by Martin Gardner. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 88-062877 ISBN 0-88385-448-1 From Penny Puzzles, Card Shuffles, and Tricks of Lightning Calculators to Roller Coaster Rides into the Fourth Dimension. A round-up of Tantalizers from Scientific American with a Foreword by John Horton Conway and Elegant Mathematica...

Published by The Mathematical Association of America An MAA Spectrum book) This book was updated and revised from the 1981 edition published by Vantage Books, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 92-060996 ISBN 0-88385-506-2 More Puzzles, Games, Paradoxes, and Other Mathematical Entertainments from Scientific American with a Preface by Donald Knuth, A Postscript from the Author, and a new Bibliography by Mr. Gardner, Thoughts from R...

Published in the United States of America by The Mathematical Association of America Copyright 1965, 1967, 1968,1976, 1977 and 1990 by Martin Gardner. An MAA Spectrum book Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 89-064- 116 ISBN 0-88385 More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-of-Mind from Scientific American with a Foreword by Persi Diaconis and Ronald Graham, Afterthoughts from the Author, a new Postscript, and...

The University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-28250-3 Introduction The Helix Klein Bottles and Other Surfaces Combinatorial Theory Bouncing Balls in Polygons and Polyhedrons Four Unusual Board Games The Rigid Square and Eight Other Problems Sliding-Block Puzzles Parity Checks Patterns and Primes Graph Theory The Ternary System The Trip around the Moon and Seven Other Problems The Cycloid: Helen of Geometry Mathematical Magic Tricks Word Play The P...

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. - 736 p. This weighty collection, containing 50 of what the Annotated Alice annotator and popular science journalist considers his best Scientific American "Mathematical Games" columns, is sure to please the relatively small but intensely loyal coterie of Gardner fans. Arranged in 12 broad categories (arithmetic and algebra, plane geometry, topology, infinity, etc. ), these pieces cover subjects that will delig...

Dorset Press, 1991. - 326 pages. Over the years, Martin Gardner has recounted his visits and interviews with the amazing Dr. Irving Joshua Matrix, a man considered by many to be the greatest numerologist of all time. The late Dr. Matrix was the leading authority on number and language coincidences, especially the type that Jung referred to as "synchronicity. " For example, it was Dr. Matrix who was the first to reveal that HAL, the crazed comput...

The University of Chicago Press, Copyright 1961, 1987 by Martin Gardner A new selection: from Origami to Recreational Logic, from Digital Roots and Dudeney Puzzles to the Diabolic Square, from the Golden Ratio to the Generalized Ham Sandwich Theorem. With mathematical commentaries by Mr. Gardner, ripostes from readers of Scientific American, references for further reading and, of course, solutions. With a new Postscript by the author

The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London 1991 ISBN 0-226-28256-2 (pbk. ) The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging Knots and Borromean Rings The Transcendental Number e Geometric Dissections Scarne on Gambling The Church of the Fourth Dimension Eight Problems A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine Spirals Rotations and Reflections Peg Solitaire Flatlands Chicago Magic Convention Tests of Divisibility Nine Problems The Eight Queens and Other Che...

W.W. Norton &Company, 2006 - 696 pages. Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner's immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master. For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American's renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations...