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).
  • 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)
  • 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

As editor/annotator

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

"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]

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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

Uncollected articles and stories

Notes

References

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