Martin Gardner bibliography
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In a publishing career spanning 80 years (1930–2010),[1] popular mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner (1914–2010) authored or edited over 100 books and countless articles, columns and reviews.
All Gardner's works were non-fiction except for two novels – The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973) and Visitors from Oz (1998) – and two collections of short pieces – The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (1967, 1985) and The No-Sided Professor (1987).
Original works
- Match-ic (1936), Illus. by Nelson C. Hahne;Ireland Magic Company.
- Here's New Magic: An Array of New and Original Magic Secrets (1937) "by Joe Berg" [actually ghostwritten by Gardner], Illus. by Nelson C. Hahne; Chicago: Privately printed.
- 12 Tricks with a Borrowed Deck (1940), Ireland Magic Company, illust. by Harlan Tarbell, intro. by Paul Rosini.
- After the Dessert (1941), Max Holden, illust. by Nelson Hahne.
- Cut the Cards (1942), Max Holden, illust. by Nelson Hahne.
- Over the Coffee Cups (1949), Tulsa: Montandon Magic, illust. by the author (close-up magic, including "dinner-table tricks and gags")
- In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present (1952), G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Republished (revised & expanded) as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1957), Mineola, New York: Dover Publications; ISBN 0-486-20394-8.
- Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery (1956), Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-20335-2.
- Logic Machines and Diagrams (1958), McGraw-Hill: New York
- Republished (1968) as Logic Machines, Diagrams, and Boolean Algebra; Dover Publications, Inc.
- 2nd edition (1983) as Logic Machines and Diagrams with introduction by Donald Michie, University of Chicago Press.
- Mathematical Puzzles (1961), New York: Thomas Y. Crowell (Illust. by Anthony Ravielli).
- Reprinted w/corrections in 1986 as Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles, Dover; ISBN 0-486-25211-6.
- Relativity for the Million (1962); New York: MacMillan Company (Illust. by Anthony Ravielli).
- Revised/updated 1976 as The Relativity Explosion New York: Vintage Books, ISBN 0-394-72104-7.
- Revised/enlarged 1997 as Relativity Simply Explained, New York: Dover; ISBN 0-486-29315-7.
- The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds (1964)
- 2nd edition, 1969.
- 3rd edition, 1990 as The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings; W.H. Freeman & Company.
- 3rd edition, Revised, 2005, Dover; ISBN 0-486-44244-6.
- Never Make Fun of a Turtle, My Son (1969), Simon & Schuster (poems; illust. by John Alcorn)
- The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973), Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc. Prometheus Books (novel).
- Confessions of a Psychic: The Secret Notebooks of Uriah Fuller (1975), Teaneck, New Jersey: Karl Fulves.
- Aha! Insight (1978), W.H. Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1017-X
- Further Confessions of a Psychic: The Secret Notebooks of Uriah Fuller (1980), Teaneck, New Jersey: Karl Fulves; 70 pp.
- Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight (1982), (Series: Tools for Transformation); W.H. Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1361-6
- The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (1983; Revised 1999 edition by St. Martin's Griffin; ISBN 0-312-20682-8.)
- Baffling Brainteasers (1983); Davis Publications.
- The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold? (1986)
- Revised 1998 edition, Prometheus Books.
- How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments with Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (1989), Prometheus Books
- The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy (1993), Prometheus Books
- My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (1994), Dover; ISBN 0-486-28152-3.
- A Die of Another Color (1995); Karl Fulves (Illust. by Joseph K. Schmidt).
- Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery (1995), Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-955-0
- The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays (1996), Springer-Verlag
- Match Magic: More Than Seventy Impromptu Tricks With Matches (1998), Piccadilly Books.
- Visitors from Oz (1998), St. Martin's Press; ISBN 0-312-19353-X (novel).
- The Colossal Book of Wordplay (2010), with Ken Jennings; Puzzlewright.
- Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner (2014); Princeton University Press
Collected columns, articles and reviews
- The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1959)[a]
- Reprinted in 1988 as Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-28254-6.
- The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1961)[a]
- Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American (1966),[a] Simon & Schuster.
- The Numerology of Dr. Matrix: The Fabulous Feats and Adventures in Number Theory, Sleight of Word, and Numerological Analysis (Literary, Biblical, Political, Philosophical and Psychonumeranalytical) of That Incredible Master Mind (1967),[a] Simon & Schuster.
- Reprinted/expanded as The Incredible Dr. Matrix: The World's Greatest Numerologist (1976), Charles Scribner's Sons; ISBN 0-684-14669-X.
- Reprinted/expanded as The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (1985); Prometheus Books; LCCN 84-43183, ISBN 0-87975-281-5 (cloth), 0-87975-282-3 (paper).
- Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions (1968),[a] Simon & Schuster.
- The Sixth Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1971),[a] Simon & Schuster
- Mathematical Carnival (1975),[a] Vintage Books.
- Mathematical Magic Show (1977),[a] Vintage.
- Mathematical Circus (1979),[a] Vintage.
- Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981),[b] Random House (Foreword by Isaac Asimov)
- Reprinted as Mathematical Puzzle Tales (2000), Mathematical Association of America ISBN 0-88385-533-X.
- Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus (1981), Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-573-3 (paperback), ISBN 0-87975-144-4 (hardback), ISBN 0-380-61754-4 (Avon pocket paperback)[2]
- Order and Surprise (1983), Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-87975-219-X
- Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements (1983),[a] W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1589-9
- Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984),[b] Vintage
- Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments (1986),[a] W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1799-9.
- Riddles of the Sphinx and other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (1987),[b] Mathematical Association of America, ISBN 0-88385-632-8
- Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments (1987),[a] W.H. Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1925-8
- The No-Sided Professor and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy (1987), Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-390-0. (26 short stories, 2 poems)
- The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher (1988),[c] Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-432-X
- Gardner's Whys & Wherefores (1989), University of Chicago Press.
- Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers (1989),[a] W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1987-8.
- Fractal Music, Hypercards and More (1991),[a] W. H. Freeman
- On the Wild Side: The Big Bang, ESP, the Beast 666, Levitation, Rainmaking, Trance-Channeling, Seances and Ghosts, and More... (1992),[c] Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-713-2
- The Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic (1985), Magic, Inc (574 pgs).[d]
- 2nd edition (1993), as Martin Gardner Presents; Kaufman and Greenberg (415 pgs).
- 3rd edition (2015), as Impromptu; The Miracle Factory (864 pgs), with Todd Karr.
- Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher (1996),[c] Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-096-7
- The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 (1997), St. Martin's Griffin; ISBN 0-312-16949-3
- Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications (1997),[a] Springer Verlag; ISBN 0-387-94929-1
- Martin Gardner's Table Magic (1998),[3] Dover; ISBN 0-486-40403-X
- From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr.: On Science, Literature, and Religion (2000), Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-852-6
- Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience (2001),[c] W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-32238-6.
- A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit (2001), ISBN 1-56881-120-9. (collection of articles and reviews that Gardner published from 1984 to 2000)
- The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems (2001), W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-02023-1 (a "best of" collection)
- Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics (2003),[c] ISBN 0-393-05742-9[4]
- Dana Scott Richards, editor (2006), The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems (2006), W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-06114-0.
- The Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings—both Serious and Whimsical (2007),[b] Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-59102-565-6
- The Fantastic Fiction of Gilbert Chesterton: Essays on His Novels and Short Stories (2008), Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box; ISBN 978-1-55246-803-6 (Collection of previously published material).
- When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish and other Speculations about This and That (2009), Hill and Wang; ISBN 0-8090-8737-5
As editor/annotator
- Great Essays in Science (1957)
- Revised in 1984 as The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-257-2.
- The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was (1957; edited w/ Russel B. Nye), Michigan State University Press
- Revised edition, 1994; Michigan State University Press.
- Best Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd (1959), New York: Dover. (Sometimes cited as "Volume 1".)
- Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd, Volume 2 (1960), New York: Dover. (Also published in the same year as More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd)
- The Annotated Alice (1960), New York: Bramhall House Clarkson Potter. LCCN 60-7341 (no ISBN)
- Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature (1961) by C.C. Bombaugh, Dover.[5]
- The Annotated Snark (1962), New York: Simon & Schuster.
- 2nd edition, 1974.
- Revised in 1981 as The Hunting of the Snark: A Centennial Edition; Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann; Includes "The Designs of the Snark" by Charles Mitchell and a bibliography by Selwyn Goodacre.
- Reprinted/revised in 2006 as The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Definitive Edition, Norton; Intro by Adam Gopnik.
- The Annotated Ancient Mariner (1965) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, New York: Clarkson Potter.
- Philosophical Foundations of Physics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (1966) by Rudolf Carnap, Basic Books.
- Republished w/corrections (1995) as An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Dover (New foreword).
- Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney (1967), Charles Scribner's Sons.
- Expanded as 536 Curious Problems and Puzzles (1995), Barnes and Noble.
- The Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey (1967); New York: Clarkson Potter.
- 2nd (1984) edition; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-28263-5.
- 3rd (1995) edition; New York: Dover Publications, ISBN 0-486-28598-7.
- Carroll, Lewis, The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of 'Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There', Lewis Carroll Society of North America/C.N. Potter: Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1977.
- Fujimura, Kobon (1977), The Tokyo Puzzles, Scribners (Tr. by Fumie Adachi).
- The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown (1987), Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-217748-6 (Notes by Gardner, on G. K. Chesterton's stories).
- More Annotated Alice (1990), Random House; ISBN 0-394-58571-2 (a "supplement" to The Annotated Alice)
- The Annotated Night Before Christmas: A Collection of Sequels, Parodies, And Imitations of Clement Moore's Immortal Ballad About Santa Claus Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Martin Gardner (1991), Summit Books (Reprinted, Prometheus Books, 1995); ISBN 0-671-70839-2
- Kordemsky, Boris A. (1992), The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Series: Dover Recreational Math). [Simplified edition of 1956 Russian-language original.]
- Peter Puzzlemaker Returns! More Puzzles for Problem Solvers (1994); Dale Seymour Publications ("Compiled and introduced" by Gardner; no primary author given.)
- Best Remembered Poems (1995), Dover.
- Famous Poems From Bygone Days (1995), Dover.
- Wells, H.G., "The Country of the Blind" and Other Science Fiction Stories (1997 Dover edition), introduction by Gardner for each story. (Series: Dover Thrift Editions)
- Carroll, Lewis, Phantasmagoria (1998), Prometheus Books (satirical poem).
- Thompson, Silvanus P. (1998), Calculus Made Easy,[6] St. Martin's Press; ISBN 0-312-18548-0
- The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (1999),[7] W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04847-0.
- The Annotated Thursday: G. K. Chesterton's Masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton (1999).
- Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies (2002), Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-925-5
For children
- Science Puzzlers (1957),[8] The Viking Press, Scholastic Book Services (Illust. by Anthony Ravielli).
- Slightly revised in 1981 as Entertaining Science Experiments With Everyday Objects; Dover; ISBN 0-486-24201-3
- The Arrow Book of Brain Teasers (1959), New York: Tab Books.
- Archimedes: Mathematician and Inventor (1966); MacMillan Co. (Illust. by Leonard Everett Fisher)
- Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers (1969), Simon & Schuster.
- Space Puzzles: Curious Questions & Answers About the Solar System (1972), Simon & Schuster.
- Revised in 1997 as Puzzling Questions About the Solar System, Dover.
- The Snark Puzzle Book (1973), Simon & Schuster.
- More Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers (1977), Simon Pulse
- Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Test Your Code Breaking Skills) (1984), Dover; ISBN 0-486-24761-9
- Classic Brainteasers (1995), Sterling Publishing; ISBN 0-8069-1261-8
- Science Magic: Martin Gardner's Tricks and Puzzles (1997), Sterling Pub. Co.
- Reprinted as Martin Gardner's Science Magic: Tricks and Puzzles (2011), Dover
- Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles (2001), New York: Sterling Publishing Co. (Illust. by V.G. Myers)
- Smart Science Tricks (2004), Sterling; ISBN 1-4027-0910-2. (About half of the "tricks" are reprinted "Trick of the Month" columns from The Physics Teacher; many of these had also already been reprinted as "Gardner's Corner" columns in Magic.)
- Optical Illusion Play Pack (2008), Sterling (Illust. by Gilbert Ford)
- The Adventures of Humphrey Huckleberry (2009?), Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box; ISBN 978-1-55246-808-1; (Collection of 8 years of 10 columns per annum from Humpty Dumpty Magazine).
- Mental Magic: Surefire Tricks to Amaze Your Friends (2010), Dover.
As contributor
- "Speak Roughly", In: Guiliano, Edward (1976), Lewis Carroll Observed, Clarkson N. Potter; Reprinted with additions in Gardner's Order and Surprise (1983).
- Klarner, David A., editor (1981), The Mathematical Gardner, Wadsworth International.
- Reprinted in 1998 as Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner, Dover; ISBN 0-486-40089-1[9]
- "Lord Dunsany", In: Bleiler, E.F., editor (1985), Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror; New York: Scribner's, pp. 471–478.
- Berlekamp, Elwyn R. and Tom Rodgers, editors (1999), The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner, A K Peters/CRC Press.
- Wolfe, David and Tom Rodgers, editors (2001), Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind; Foreword by Arthur Clarke, A K Peters/CRC Press.
- Cipra, Barry Arthur, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Tom Rodgers, editors (2004), Tribute to a Mathemagician, A K Peters/CRC Press.
- Demaine, Erik D., Martin L. Demaine and Tom Rodgers, editors (2008), A Lifetime of Puzzles: A Collection of Puzzles in Honor of Martin Gardner's 90th Birthday; AK Peters.
- Pegg, Ed Jr., Alan H. Schoen and Tom Rodgers, editors (2009), Mathematical Wizardry for a Gardner; AK Peters.
- Burstein, Mark, editor (2011), A Bouquet for the Gardener: Martin Gardner Remembered, Lewis Carroll Society of North America.[10]
- Henle, Michael and Brian Hopkins, editors (2012), Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century (Series: MAA Problem Books), Mathematical Association of America (Eight short works by Gardner & 33 by other authors)
Provided introduction, preface, foreword, or afterword only
- Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll: A Facsimile of the 1864 Manuscript (1965), Dover.
- Marks, David and Richard Kammann, (1980, 2nd ed. 2000), The Psychology of the Psychic (Gardner foreword in both editions).
- American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum (Gardner intro in 1978 Dover Children's Classics reprint of Baum's 1901 book).
- A Dreamer's Tales, by Lord Dunsany (Gardner foreword to 1979 Owlswick Press reprint of Dunsany's 1910 book).
- Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty by Raymond M. Smullyan (1982).
- The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes by Rudy Rucker (1985), Mariner Books (Reprinted in 2014 as The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality, Dover Publications; Gardner provides foreword in both).
- The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose (1989)
- The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton (New intro by Gardner in 1991 Dover reprint).
- Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into (Series: Martin Gardner Presents) by Ian Stewart (1992).
- The Conquest of Time by H.G. Wells (Prometheus Books; Gardner intro to 1995 reprint of Wells' 1942 book; Series: Great Minds)
- Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, by H. G. Wells (Gardner intro to 1999 Dover reprint of Wells' 1901 book).
- The Annotated Wizard of Oz (2000),[11] edited by Michael Patrick Hearn, New York: W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04992-2.
- Magician's Magic by Paul Curry (Gardner intro to 2003 Dover reprint of Curry's 1965 book).
- Bamboozlers: The Book of Bankable Bar Betchas, Brain Bogglers, Belly Busters & Bewitchery by Diamond Jim Tyler (2008), Diamond Jim Productions; ISBN 0-9676018-1-9.
- The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek (2009), Sunday Press Books; ISBN 0-9768885-7-2.
- Wells, H.G. and Hilaire Belloc, Mr Belloc Objects to 'The Outline of History' (2009), Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box (Reprint with foreword & epilogue by Gardner).
- The Coloured Lands by G.K. Chesterton (Gardner afterword in 2009 Dover reprint).
"Mathematical Games": The Scientific American columns
- Individual columns
- Collected columns in book form
There are fifteen books altogether—what Donald Knuth calls "the Canon"—that encompass Gardner's "Mathematical Games" columns (1956–1981) from Scientific American:[12][13]
- The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1959); Simon & Schuster
- Reprinted in 1963 as The First Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, Simon & Schuster
- Reprinted in 1988 as Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games, University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-28254-6.
- Reprinted in 2008 as Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games; (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #1); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions (1961), Simon & Schuster.
- Reprinted in 1987 by the University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-28253-8.
- Reprinted in 2008 as Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Diversions, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #2); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American (1966), Simon & Schuster
- Reprinted and revised in 1995 as New Mathematical Diversions, Mathematical Association of America.
- Reprinted in 2009 as Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi: Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #3); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- The Numerology of Dr. Matrix: The Fabulous Feats and Adventures in Number Theory, Sleight of Word, and Numerological Analysis (Literary, Biblical, Political, Philosophical and Psychonumeranalytical) of That Incredible Master Mind (1967), New York: Simon & Schuster.
- Reprinted/expanded in 1979 as The Incredible Dr. Matrix, Scribner.
- Reprinted/expanded in 1985 as The Magic Numbers of Dr Matrix, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-281-5 / ISBN 0-87975-282-3.
- Reprint forthcoming as Words, Numbers, and Combinatorics: Martin Gardner on the Trail of Dr. Matrix, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #9); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions (1969), Simon & Schuster.
- Reprinted in 1991 by the University of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-671-20073-9.
- Reprinted in 2014 as Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #4); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American (1971), W.H. Freeman and Company
- Revised by the Mathematical Association of America, 2001.
- Reprint forthcoming as Klein Bottles, Op-Art, and Sliding Block Puzzles: More of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #5); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Mathematical Carnival (1975), Knopf.
- Revised with foreword by John H. Conway, Mathematical Association of America, 1992.
- Reprint forthcoming as Sprouts, Hypercubes, and Superellipses: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Carnival, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #6); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Mathematical Magic Show (1977), Knopf.
- Revised with foreword by Ronald L. Graham, Mathematical Association of America, 1990.
- Reprint forthcoming as Nothing and Everything, Polyominoes, and Game Theory: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Magic Show, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #7); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Mathematical Circus (1979), Knopf.
- Revised with foreword by Donald E. Knuth, Mathematical Association of America, 1992.
- Reprint forthcoming as Random Walks, Hyperspheres, and Palindromes: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Circus, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #8); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements (1983), W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1589-9.
- Reprint forthcoming as Wheels, Life, and Knotted Molecules: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Amusements, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #10); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments (1986), W.H. Freeman & Co.; ISBN 0-7167-1799-9.
- Reprint forthcoming as Knotted Donuts, Napier's Bones, and Gray Codes: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Entertainments, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #11); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments (1988), W. H. Freeman & Co.; ISBN 0-7167-1925-8.
- Reprint forthcoming as Tangrams, Tilings, and Time Travel: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Bewilderments, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #12); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press
- Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers (1989), W. H. Freeman & Co.; ISBN 0-7167-1987-8.
- Reprint forthcoming as Penrose Tiles, Trapdoor Ciphers, and the Oulipo: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Tour, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #13); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Fractal Music, Hypercards and More...: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American (1992), W. H. Freeman & Co.
- Reprint forthcoming as Fractal Music, Hypercards, and Chaitin's Omega: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Recreations, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #14); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
- Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications (1997), Copernicus Books, Springer Verlag; ISBN 0-387-94929-1.
- Reprint forthcoming as The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications: Martin Gardner's Last Mathematical Recreations, (Series: The New Martin Gardner Mathematical Library #15); The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University.
A more detailed list of editions can be found here. An extensive index, by Carl W. Lee, encompassing all 15 books can be found here.
- CD-ROMs
- Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games (2005), Mathematical Association of America; ISBN 0-88385-545-3 (CD-ROM of 15 Gardner books above, encompassing all his "Mathematical Games" columns from Scientific American.)
Uncollected articles and stories
- Gardner, Martin, "Left or Right?" [short story], Esquire, Feb 1951 issue. (actually in Mathenauts edited by Rudy Rucker)
- Chung, Fan, Martin Gardner and Ron Graham, "Steiner Trees on a Checkerboard", Mathematics Magazine 62, 83–96, 1989 (won a Carl B. Allendoerfer award). (actually in Gardner's Workout)