Martin Gardner
Author · 64 books
Martin Gardner was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature (especially the writings of Lewis Carroll), philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion. He wrote the Mathematical Games column in Scientific American from 1956 to 1981, and published over 70 books.
Books
The Annotated Night Before Christmas
1991
The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
1963
The Night Is Large
Collected Essays 1938-1995
1996
From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr.
2000
Aha! Gotcha
Paradoxes to Puzzle & Delight
1975
The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix
1967
Mathematical Carnival
1975
Visitors from Oz
1998
The No-sided Professor & Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery & Philosophy
1987
Order and Surprise
1983
Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments
1986
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
1983
New Mathematical Diversions
1966
Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales
1385
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus
The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
2013
The Ambidextrous Universe
1964
The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
1901
Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles
2001
Entertaining Science Experiments with Everyday Objects
1981
The Universe in a Handkerchief
1996
Martin Gardner's Science Magic
Tricks and Puzzles
2011
Puzzles from other worlds
1984
L'universo ambidestro
1996
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?
2003
Urantia
The Great Cult Mystery
1995
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
1952
Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
1956
Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements
1983
When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish
And Other Speculations About This and That
2009
Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments
1987
Jinn from Hyperspace & Other Scribblings both Serious & Whimsical
2007
The Annotated Casey at the Bat
1967
Mathematical Circus
1968
Aha! Insight
1978
Calculus Made Easy
1910
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, December 1983
1983
The Magic and Mystery of Numbers
2014
The Last Recreations
1997
The Flight of Peter Fromm
1973
The Colossal Book of Mathematics
2001
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)
1994
Whys & Wherefores
1989
Logic Machines and Diagrams
1958
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers
1969
Aha! Gotcha
Aha! Insight
2006
Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?
1986
Great Essays in Science
1957
Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic
1996
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
2000
Science
Good Bad, and Bogus
1957
Relativity Simply Explained
1967
Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles
1986
Mathematical Magic Show
1977
MORE MATHEMATICAL PUZZLES AND DIVERSIONS
1963
Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions
1959
The New Age
Notes of a Fringe Watcher
1988
Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers and the Return of Dr. Matrix
1989
Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic
1978
Mathematical Puzzle Tales
2000
On the Wild Side
1992
The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems
2005
The New Ambidextrous Universe
1990
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
1972
Famous Poems from Bygone Days
1995
