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- * On the Ancient Lore of Dice and the Odds Against Making a Point, (ar) Scientific American November 1968
- * On the Contradictions of Time Travel, (ar) Scientific American May 1974
- * On the Cyclical Curves Generated by Wheels That Roll Along Wheels, (ar) Scientific American September 1970
- * On the Fabric of Inductive Logic, and Some Probability Paradoxes, (ar) Scientific American March 1976
- * On the Fanciful History and the Creative Challenges of the Puzzle Game of Tangrams, (ar) Scientific American August 1974
- * On the Fine Art of Putting Players, Pills and Points Into Their Proper Pigeonholes, (ar) Scientific American August 1980
- * On the Meaning of Randomness and Some Ways of Achieving It, (ar) Scientific American July 1968
- * On the Paradoxical Situations That Arise from Nontransitive Relations, (ar) Scientific American October 1974
- * On the Patterns and the Unusual Properties of Figurate Numbers, (ar) Scientific American July 1974
- * On the Practical Uses and Bizarre Abuses of Sir Francis Bacon’s Biliteral Cipher, (ar) Scientific American November 1972
- * On the Relation Between Mathematics and the Ordered Patterns of Op Art, (ar) Scientific American July 1965
- * On the Remarkable Császár Polyhedron and Its Applications in Problem Solving, (ar) Scientific American May 1975
- * On the Theory of Probability and the Practice of Gambling, (ar) Scientific American December 1961
- * On to Charmian, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1984
- * Oom, (vi) The Journal of Science-Fiction Fall 1951
- * Op Art, (ar) Scientific American July 1965, as "On the Relation Between Mathematics and the Ordered Patterns of Op Art"
- * Optical Illusions, (ar) Scientific American May 1970, as "Of Optical Illusions, from Figures That Are Undecidable to Hot Dogs That Float"
- * The Orders of Infinity, the Topological Nature of Dimension and “Supertasks”, (ar) Scientific American March 1971
- * Origami, (ar) Scientific American July 1959, as "About Origami, the Japanese Art of Folding Objects out of Paper"
- * The Oulipo, (ar) Scientific American February 1977, as "The Flip-Strip Sonnet, the Lipogram and Other Mad Modes of Wordplay"
- * Oulipo Wordplay, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1979, as "On Oulipo Algorithms, Anagrams, and Other Nonsense"
- * Packing Spheres, (ar) Scientific American May 1960, as "Reflections on the Packing of Spheres"
- * Packing Squares, (ar) Scientific American October 1979, as "Some Packing Problems That Cannot Be Solved by Sitting on the Suitcase"
- * Palindromes and Primes, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1982
- * Palindromes: Words and Numbers, (ar) Scientific American August 1970, as "Backward Run Numbers, Letters, Words and Sentences Until Boggles the Mind"
- * Paper Cutting, (ar) Scientific American June 1960, as "Recreations Involving Folding and Cutting Sheets of Paper"
- * Parabolas, (ar) Scientific American August 1981, as "The Abstract Parabola Fits the Concrete World"
- * Paradoxes Dealing with Birthdays, Playing Cards, Coins, Crows and Red-Haired Typists, (ar) Scientific American April 1957
- * The Paradox of the Nontransitive Dice and the Elusive Principle of Indifference, (ar) Scientific American December 1970
- * The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging, (ar) Scientific American March 1963, as "A New Paradox, and Variations on It, About a Man Condemned to Be Hanged"
- * Parallel Pasts, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 26 1981
- * Parity Checks, (ar) Scientific American December 1963, as "How to Use the Odd-Even Check for Tricks and Problem-Solving"
- * Part III: Pseudoscience, (is) The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Penguin, 1997
- * Part II: Social Science, (is) The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Penguin, 1997
- * Part I: Physical Science, (is) The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Penguin, 1997
- * Part IV: Mathematics, (is) The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Penguin, 1997
- * Part VII: Religion, (is) The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Penguin, 1997
- * Part VI: Philosophy, (is) The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Penguin, 1997
- * Part V: The Arts, (is) The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, Penguin, 1997
- * Pascal’s Triangle, (ar) Scientific American December 1966, as "The Multiple Charms of Pascal’s Triangle"
- * Paterson’s Worms, Fantastic Patterns Traced by Programmed “Worms”, (ar) Scientific American November 1973
- * Patterns and Primes, (ar) Scientific American March 1964, as "The Remarkable Lore of the Prime Numbers"
- * Patterns in Primes Are a Clue to the Strong Law of Small Numbers, (ar) Scientific American December 1980
- * Patterns of Induction, (ar) Scientific American November 1969, as "A New Pencil-And-Paper Game Based on Inductive Reasoning"
- * Peg Solitaire, (ar) Scientific American June 1962, as "The Game of Solitaire and Some Variations and Transformations"
- * Penny Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American February 1966, as "Recreational Numismatics, or a Purse of Coin Puzzles"
- * Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers, (nf) W.H. Freeman & Co., 1989
- * Penrose Tiling, (ar) Scientific American January 1977, as "Extraordinary Nonperiodic Tiling That Enriches the Theory of Tiles"
- * Pentominoes and Polyominoes: Five Games and a Sampling of Problems, (ar) Scientific American October 1965
- * Perfect, Amicable, Sociable, (ar) Scientific American March 1968, as "A Short Treatise on the Useless Elegance of Perfect Numbers and Amicable Pairs"
- * Permutations and Paradoxes in Combinatorial Mathematics, (ar) Scientific American August 1963
- * The Persistence (And Futility) of Efforts to Trisect the Angle, (ar) Scientific American June 1966
- * Phi: The Golden Ratio, (ar) Scientific American November 1958, as "How Rectangles, Including Squares, Can Be Divided Into Squares of Unequal Size"
- * Pi and Poetry: Some Accidental Patterns, (ar) Scientific American September 1979, as "In Some Patterns of Numbers or Words There May Be Less Than Meets the Eye"
- * Piet Hein’s Superellipse, (ar) Scientific American September 1965, as "The Superellipse: a Curve That Lies Between the Ellipse and the Rectangle"
- * Piggy’s Glasses and the Moon, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid December 1982
- * Pink, Blue, and Green, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1979
- * The Plaiting of Plato’s Polyhedrons and the Asymmetrical Yin-Yang-Lee, (ar) Scientific American September 1971
- * Plaiting Polyhedrons, (ar) Scientific American September 1971, as "The Plaiting of Plato’s Polyhedrons and the Asymmetrical Yin-Yang-Lee"
- * Playing Cards, (ar) Scientific American June 1968, as "Combinatorial Possibilities in a Pack of Shuffled Cards"
- * Playing Safe on the Bagel, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1985
- * Pleasurable Problems with Polycubes, and the Winning Strategy for Slither, (ar) Scientific American September 1972
- * The Pleasures of Doing Science and Technology in the Planiverse, (ar) Scientific American July 1980
- * Plotting the Crossing Number of Graphs, (ar) Scientific American June 1973
- * Point Sets on the Sphere, (ar) Scientific American September 1973, as "Problems on the Surface of a Sphere Offer an Entertaining Introduction to Point Sets"
- * The Polybugs of Titan, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 13 1981
- * Polycubes, (ar) Scientific American September 1972, as "Pleasurable Problems with Polycubes, and the Winning Strategy for Slither"
- * The Polyhex and the Polyabolo, Polygonal Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces, (ar) Scientific American June 1967
- * Polyhexes and Polyaboloes, (ar) Scientific American June 1967, as "The Polyhex and the Polyabolo, Polygonal Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces"
- * Polyiamonds, (ar) Scientific American December 1964, as "On Polyiamonds: Shapes That Are Made Out of Equilateral Triangles"
- * Polyominoes, (ar) Scientific American December 1957, as "More About Complex Dominoes"
- * Polyominoes and Fault-Free Rectangles, (ar) Scientific American November 1960, as "More About the Shapes That Can Be Made with Complex Dominoes"
- * Polyominoes and Rectification, (ar) Scientific American October 1965, as "Pentominoes and Polyominoes: Five Games and a Sampling of Problems"
- * Pool-Ball Triangles and Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American April 1977, as "The Pool-Table Triangle, a Limerick Paradox and Divers Other Challenges"
- * The Pool-Table Triangle, a Limerick Paradox and Divers Other Challenges, (ar) Scientific American April 1977
- * The Popperism of Sir Karl, (br) The New Leader October 14 1974
- * The Postage Stamps of Philo Tate, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November/December 1978
- * The Power of the Pigeonhole, (ar) Scientific American August 1980, as "On the Fine Art of Putting Players, Pills and Points Into Their Proper Pigeonholes"
- * Precognition and the Mystic 7, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1984
- * Preface, (pr) Science Fiction Puzzle Tales, Penguin, 1983
- * Preface, (pr) The No-Sided Professor, Prometheus, 1987
- * Presenting the One and Only Dr. Matrix, Numerologist, in His Annual Performance, (ar) Scientific American January 1964
- * A Pride of Problems, Including One That Is Virtually Impossible, (ar) Scientific American December 1979
- * Private Eye Oglesby, (ss) The London Mystery Magazine #8, February/March 1951, as "Crunchy Wunchy’s First Case"
- * Probability and Ambiguity, (ar) Scientific American October 1959, as "Problems Involving Questions of Probability and Ambiguity"
- * Probability Paradoxes, (ar) Scientific American April 1957, as "Paradoxes Dealing with Birthdays, Playing Cards, Coins, Crows and Red-Haired Typists"
- * The Problem of Mrs. Perkins’ Quilt, (ar) Scientific American September 1966
- * Problems Involving Questions of Probability and Ambiguity, (ar) Scientific American October 1959
- * Problems on the Surface of a Sphere Offer an Entertaining Introduction to Point Sets, (ar) Scientific American September 1973
- * Problems That Are Built on the Knight’s Move in Chess, (ar) Scientific American October 1967
- * Professor Cracker’s Antitelephone, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1980
- * Proofs of God, (ar) from Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, Morrow, 1983
- * Pseudoscience in the Nineteenth Century, (ar) The New York Review of Books March 17 1988
- * Psychic Wonders and Probability, (ar) Scientific American May 1979, as "How to Be a Psychic, Even if You Are a Horse or Some Other Animal"
- * Puns, Palindromes and Other Word Games That Partake of the Mathematical Spirit, (ar) Scientific American September 1964
- * Puzzle Flags on Mars, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1986
- * Puzzles and Number-Theory Problems Arising from the Curious Fractions of Ancient Egypt, (ar) Scientific American October 1978
- * Puzzles and Tricks with a Dollar Bill, (ar) Scientific American April 1968
- * Puzzles from Other Worlds, (nf) Random House, 1984
- * Puzzles in Flatland, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1985
- * Puzzles in Ulysses, (ar) Semiotica v57, 1985 [Ref. James Joyce]
- * Puzzles That Can Be Solved by Reasoning Based on Elementary Physical Principles, (ar) Scientific American August 1966
- * Puzzling Over a Problem-Solving Matrix, Cubes of Many Colors and Three-Dimensional Dominoes, (ar) Scientific American September 1978
- * The Pythagorean Theorem, (ar) Scientific American October 1964, as "Simple Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and Sundry Other Matters"
- * Quantum Weirdness, (ar) Discover October 1982
- * The Queer Story of Gardner’s Magazine, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1980
- * Quickie Problems: Not Hard, but Look Out for the Curves, (ar) Scientific American July 1971
- * The Rambling Random Walk and Its Gambling Equivalent, (ar) Scientific American May 1969
- * Ramsey Theory, (ar) Scientific American November 1977, as "In Which Joining Sets of Points by Lines Leads Into Diverse (And Diverting) Paths"
- * A Random Assortment of Puzzles, Together with Reader Responses to Earlier Problems, (ar) Scientific American December 1975
- * The Random Number Omega Bids Fair to Hold the Mysteries of the Universe, (ar) Scientific American November 1979
- * Random Numbers, (ar) Scientific American July 1968, as "On the Meaning of Randomness and Some Ways of Achieving It"
- * Random Walks and Gambling, (ar) Scientific American May 1969, as "The Rambling Random Walk and Its Gambling Equivalent"
- * Random Walks, by Semidrunk Bugs and Others, on the Square and on the Cube, (ar) Scientific American June 1969
- * Random Walks on the Plane and in Space, (ar) Scientific American June 1969, as "Random Walks, by Semidrunk Bugs and Others, on the Square and on the Cube"
- * Ranklin Felano Doosevelt, (ss) The No-Sided Professor, Prometheus, 1987
- * Raymond Smyllyan’s Logic Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American March 1978, as "Count Dracula, Alice, Portia and Many Others Consider Various Twists of Logic"
- * Ray Palmer’s Arcade, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1986
- * Recreational Logic, (ar) Scientific American February 1959, as "“Brain-Teasers” That Involve Formal Logic"
- * Recreational Numismatics, or a Purse of Coin Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American February 1966
- * Recreational Topology, (ar) Scientific American October 1958, as "Four Mathematical Diversions Involving Concepts of Topology"
- * Recreations Involving Folding and Cutting Sheets of Paper, (ar) Scientific American June 1960
- * The Red-Faced Cube and Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American November 1965, as "A Selection of Elementary Word and Number Problems"
- * References for Further Reading, (ms) Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, Pelican, 1966
- * References for Further Reading, (ms) More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, Pelican, 1966
- * Reflections on Newcomb’s Paradox, (ar) Scientific American March 1974, as "Reflections on Newcomb’s Problem: a Prediction and Free-Will Dilemma"
- * Reflections on Newcomb’s Problem: a Prediction and Free-Will Dilemma, (ar) Scientific American March 1974
- * Reflections on the Packing of Spheres, (ar) Scientific American May 1960
- * Relativistically Speaking, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine March 1985
- * The Remarkable Lore of the Prime Numbers, (ar) Scientific American March 1964
- * Rep-Tiles: Replicating Figures on the Plane, (ar) Scientific American May 1963, as "On Rep-Tiles, Polygons That Can Make Larger and Smaller Copies of Themselves"
- * Reverse the Fish and Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American April 1974, as "Nine Challenging Problems, Some Rational and Some Not"
- * Riddle of the Sphinxes, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1984
- * Ridiculous Questions, (ar) Scientific American August 1968, as "An Array of Puzzles and Tricks, with a Few Traps for the Unwary"
- * The Rigid Square and Eight Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American November 1963, as "A Mixed Bag of Problems"
- * The Rising Hourglass and Other Physics Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American August 1966, as "Puzzles That Can Be Solved by Reasoning Based on Elementary Physical Principles"
- * The Road to Mandalay, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1984
- * Robots of Oz, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1980
- * The Rotating Round Table and Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American April 1969, as "An Octet of Problems That Emphasize Gamesmanship, Logic and Probability"
- * The Rotating Table and Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American February 1979, as "About Rectangling Rectangles, Parodying Poe and Many Another Pleasing Problem"
- * Rotations and Reflections, (ar) Scientific American May 1962, as "Symmetry and Asymmetry and the Strange World of Upside-Down Art"
- * Royal Historian of Oz, (bg) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jan, Feb 1955 [Ref. L. Frank Baum]
- * The Rubber Rope and Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American March 1975, as "From Rubber Ropes to Rolling Cubes, a Miscellany of Refreshing Problems"
- * Run, Robot, Run!, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1983
- * Salmon on Austin’s Dog, (ar) Scientific American December 1971, as "Further Encounters with Touching Cubes, and the Paradoxes of Zeno As “Supertasks”"
- * Sam Loyd: America’s Greatest Puzzlist, (ar) Scientific American August 1957, as "The Life and Work of Sam Loyd, a Mighty Inventor of Puzzles"
- * Satan and the Apple, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1985
- * Scarne on Gambling, (ar) Scientific American December 1961, as "On the Theory of Probability and the Practice of Gambling"
- * The Science Fantasy Puzzle Quiz, (qz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November 1984
- * Science Fiction Puzzle Tales, (oc) Clarkson N. Potter, 1981
- * Scrambled Heads on Langwidere, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 31 1981
- * The Sculpture of Miguel Berrocal Can Be Taken Apart Like an Interlocking Mechanical Puzzle, (ar) Scientific American January 1978
- * Second Answers, (ms) Science Fiction Puzzle Tales, Penguin, 1983
- * Second Answers, (ms) Puzzles from Other Worlds, Oxford University Press, 1986
- * A Selection of Elementary Word and Number Problems, (ar) Scientific American November 1965
- * A Set of Quickies, (ar) Scientific American July 1971, as "Quickie Problems: Not Hard, but Look Out for the Curves"
- * Sex Among the Polyomans, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September 1985
- * SFs and Fs on Fifty-Fifth St., (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 14 1982
- * The Shop on Bedford Street, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1979
- * A Short Treatise on the Useless Elegance of Perfect Numbers and Amicable Pairs, (ar) Scientific American March 1968
- * Sibyl Sits In, (vi) The Record Changer October 1948
- * Sicherman Dice, the Kruskal Count and Other Curiosities, (ar) Scientific American February 1978, as "On Checker Jumping, the Amazon Game, Weird Dice, Card Tricks and Other Playful Pastimes"
- * Sidney Sime of Worplesdon, (ar) The Arkham Sampler Autumn 1949
- * The Significance of “Nothing”, (ar) Scientific American February 1975
- * Sim, Chomp, and Race Track, (ar) Scientific American January 1973, as "Sim, Chomp and Race Track: New Games for the Intellect (And Not for Lady Luck)"
- * Sim, Chomp and Race Track: New Games for the Intellect (And Not for Lady Luck), (ar) Scientific American January 1973
- * Simple Proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem, and Sundry Other Matters, (ar) Scientific American October 1964
- * Simplicity, (ar) Scientific American August 1969, as "Simplicity As a Scientific Concept: Does Nature Keep Her Accounts on a Thumbnail?"
- * Simplicity As a Scientific Concept: Does Nature Keep Her Accounts on a Thumbnail?, (ar) Scientific American August 1969
- * Six Sensational Discoveries, (ar) Scientific American April 1975, as "Six Sensational Discoveries That Somehow or Another Have Escaped Public Attention"
- * Six Sensational Discoveries That Somehow or Another Have Escaped Public Attention, (ar) Scientific American April 1975
- * The Sixth Ship, (ss) Our Navy September 1951
- * The Sixth Symbol and Other Problems, (ar) Scientific American December 1975, as "A Random Assortment of Puzzles, Together with Reader Responses to Earlier Problems"
- * Sliding-Block Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American February 1964, as "The Hypnotic Fascination of Sliding-Block Puzzles"
- * Slither, 3X+1, and Other Curious Questions, (ar) Scientific American June 1972, as "A Miscellany of Transcendental Problems: Simple to State but Not at All Easy to Solve"
- * Snarks, Boojums and Other Conjectures Related to the Four-Color-Map Theorem, (ar) Scientific American April 1976
- * Solar System Oddities, (ar) Scientific American April 1970, as "Some Mathematical Curiosities Embedded in the Solar System"
- * So Long Old Girl, (pm) 1945
- * The Soma Cube, (ar) Scientific American September 1958, as "A Game in Which Standard Pieces Composed of Cubes Are Assembled Into Larger Forms"
- * Some Comments by Dr. Matrix on Symmetries and Reversals, (ar) Scientific American January 1965
- * Some Diversions and Problems from Mr. O’gara, the Postman, (ar) Scientific American June 1965
- * Some Diverting Mathematical Board Games, (ar) Scientific American July 1961
- * Some Diverting Tricks Which Involve the Concept of Numerical Congruence, (ar) Scientific American July 1958
- * Some Elegant Brick-Packing Problems, and a New Order-7 Perfect Magic Cube, (ar) Scientific American February 1976
- * Some Entertainments That Involve the Calculus of Finite Differences, (ar) Scientific American August 1961
- * Some Mathematical Curiosities Embedded in the Solar System, (ar) Scientific American April 1970
- * Some New and Dramatic Demonstrations of Number Theorems with Playing Cards, (ar) Scientific American November 1974
- * Some Old and New Versions of Ticktacktoe, (ar) Scientific American March 1957
- * Some Packing Problems That Cannot Be Solved by Sitting on the Suitcase, (ar) Scientific American October 1979
- * Some Paradoxes and Puzzles Involving Infinite Series and the Concept of Limit, (ar) Scientific American November 1964
- * Some Puzzles Based on Checkerboards, (ar) Scientific American November 1962
- * Some Recreations Involving the Binary Number System, (ar) Scientific American December 1960
- * Some Simple Tricks and Manipulations from the Ancient Lore of String Play, (ar) Scientific American December 1962
- * The Son of the Mighty Casey, (pm) The Annotated Casey at the Bat ed. Martin Gardner, Clarkson Potter, 1967, as by Nitram Rendrag
- * Space Pool, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Fall 1977
- * Spheres and Hyperspheres, (ar) Scientific American May 1968, as "Circles and Spheres, and How They Kiss and Pack"
- * Spirals, (ar) Scientific American April 1962, as "About Three Types of Spirals and How to Construct Them"
- * Sprouts and Brussels Sprouts, (ar) Scientific American July 1967, as "Of Sprouts and Brussels Sprouts, Games with a Topological Flavor"
- * Squaring the Square, (ar) Scientific American August 1959, as "About phi, an Irrational Number That Has Some Remarkable Geometrical Expressions"
- * The Strange Case of Robert Maynard Hutchins, (ar) The University Review Winter 1938
- * The Stranger, (vi) The No-Sided Professor, Prometheus, 1987
- * The Stripe of Barberpolia, (pz) Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine September 1984
- * Strong Laws of Small Primes, (ar) Scientific American December 1980, as "Patterns in Primes Are a Clue to the Strong Law of Small Numbers"
- * The Superellipse: a Curve That Lies Between the Ellipse and the Rectangle, (ar) Scientific American September 1965
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