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    The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions by Martin Gardner (Simon & Schuster, 1969, hc, nf)
    • · The Paradox of the Unexpected Hanging · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1963, as “A New Paradox, and Variations on It, About a Man Condemned to Be Hanged”
    • · Knots and Borromean Rings · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1961, as “Surfaces with Edges Linked in the Same Way As the Three Rings of a Well-Known Design”
    • · The Transcendental Number e · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1961, as “Diversions That Involve the Mathematical Constant “e””
    • · Geometric Dissections · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1961, as “Wherein Geometrical Figures Are Dissected to Make Other Figures”
    • · Scarne on Gambling · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1961, as “On the Theory of Probability and the Practice of Gambling”
    • · The Church of the Fourth Dimension · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1962, as “An Adventure in Hyperspace at the Church of the Fourth Dimension”
    • · Eight Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1962, as “A Clutch of Diverting Problems”
    • · A Matchbox Game-Learning Machine · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1962, as “How to Build a Game-Learning Machine and Teach It to Play and Win”
    • · Spirals · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1962, as “About Three Types of Spirals and How to Construct Them”
    • · Rotations and Reflections · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1962, as “Symmetry and Asymmetry and the Strange World of Upside-Down Art”
    • · Peg Solitaire · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1962, as “The Game of Solitaire and Some Variations and Transformations”
    • · Flatlands · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1962, as “Fiction About Life in Two Dimensions”
    • · Chicago Magic Convention · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1962, as “A Variety of Diverting Tricks Collected at a Fictitious Convention of Magicians”
    • · Tests of Divisibility · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1962, as “Tests That Show Whether a Large Number Can Be Divided by a Number from 2 to 12”
    • · Nine Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1962, as “A Collection of Puzzles Involving Numbers, Logic, and Probability”
    • · The Eight Queens and Other Chessboard Diversions · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1962, as “Some Puzzles Based on Checkerboards”
    • · A Loop of String · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1962, as “Some Simple Tricks and Manipulations from the Ancient Lore of String Play”
    • · Curves of Constant Width · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1963, as “Curves of Constant Width, One of Which Makes It Possible to Drill Square Holes”
    • · Rep-Tiles: Replicating Figures on the Plane · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1963, as “On Rep-Tiles, Polygons That Can Make Larger and Smaller Copies of Themselves”
    • · Thirty-Seven Catch Questions · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1963, as “A Bit of Foolishness for April Fools’ Day”

    Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements by Martin Gardner (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1983, 0-7167-1589-9, hc, nf)
    • · Wheels · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1970, as “On the Cyclical Curves Generated by Wheels That Roll Along Wheels”
    • · Diophantine Analysis and Fermat’s Last Theorem · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1970, as “Diophantine Analysis and the Problem of Fermat’s Legendary Last Theorem”
    • · The Knotted Molecule and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1970, as “A New Collection of Short Problems and the Answers to Some of “Life’s””
    • · Alephs and Supertasks · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1971, as “The Orders of Infinity, the Topological Nature of Dimension and “Supertasks””
    • · Nontransitive Dice and Other Probability Paradoxes · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1970, as “The Paradox of the Nontransitive Dice and the Elusive Principle of Indifference”
    • · Geometric Fallacies · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1971, as “Geometric Fallacies: Hidden Errors Pave the Road to Absurd Conclusions”
    • · The Combinatorics of Paper Folding · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1971, as “The Combinatorial Richness of Folding a Piece of Paper”
    • · A Set of Quickies · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1971, as “Quickie Problems: Not Hard, but Look Out for the Curves”
    • · Ticktacktoe Games · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1971, as “Ticktacktoe and Its Complications”
    • · Plaiting Polyhedrons · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1971, as “The Plaiting of Plato’s Polyhedrons and the Asymmetrical Yin-Yang-Lee”
    • · The Game of Halma · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1971, as “New Puzzles from the Game of Halma, the Noble Ancestor of Chinese Checkers”
    • · Advertising Premiums · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1971, as “Advertising Premiums to Beguile the Mind: Classics by Sam Loyd, Master Puzzle-Poser”
    • · Salmon on Austin’s Dog · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1971, as “Further Encounters with Touching Cubes, and the Paradoxes of Zeno As “Supertasks””
    • · Nim and Hackenbush · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1972, as “How to Triumph at Nim by Playing Safe, and John Horton Conway’s Game “Hackenbush””
    • · Golomb’s Graceful Graphs · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1972, as “The Graceful Graphs of Solomon Golomb, or How to Number a Graph Parsimoniously”
    • · Charles Addams’ Skier and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1972, as “A Topological Problem with a Fresh Twist, and Eight Other New Recreational Puzzles”
    • · Chess Tasks · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1972, as “Challenging Chess Tasks for Puzzle Buffs and Answers to the Recreational Problems”
    • · Slither, 3X+1, and Other Curious Questions · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1972, as “A Miscellany of Transcendental Problems: Simple to State but Not at All Easy to Solve”
    • · Mathematical Tricks with Cards · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1972, as “Amazing Mathematical Card Tricks That Do Not Require Prestidigitation”
    • · The Game of Life, Part I · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1970, as “The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway’s New Solitaire Game “Life””
    • · The Game of Life, Part II · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1971, as “On Cellular Automata, Self-Reproduction, the Garden of Eden and the Game “Life””

    The Dawning Light by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg (Gateway, August 27, 2015, 978-1-4732-0110-1, £2.99, ebook, n.) [Nidor]
        Reprint (Gnome Press 1959 as by Robert Randall) novel.
    Details taken from online listing.

    Human Reaction by Randall Garrett (Crippen & Landru, January 2009, 23pp, ph, nv)
        Chapbook included with the hardback edition of A Little Intelligence by Robert Silverberg & Randall Garrett.
    Details taken from online listing.

    The Shrouded Planet by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg (Gateway, August 27, 2015, 978-1-4732-0109-5, £4.99, ebook, n.) [Nidor]
        Reprint (Gnome Press 1957 as by Robert Randall) SF novel expanded from three novelettes published in Astounding Science Fiction.
    Details taken from online listing.

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