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    More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions by Martin Gardner (Pelican, 1966, 4/-, 187pp, pb, nf)
        Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1961) collection of columns from Scientific American.
    • 9 · Introduction · Martin Gardner · in
    • 11 · The Five Platonic Solids · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1958, as “Diversions Which Involve the Five Platonic Solids”
    • 19 · Tetraflexagons · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1958, as “About Tetraflexagons and Tetraflexagation”
    • 25 · Henry Ernest Dudeney: England’s Greatest Puzzlist · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1958, as “About Henry Ernest Dudeney, a Brilliant Creator of Puzzles”
    • 33 · Digital Roots · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1958, as “Some Diverting Tricks Which Involve the Concept of Numerical Congruence”
    • 39 · Nine Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1958, as “A Third Collection of “Brain-Teasers””
    • 50 · The Soma Cube · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1958, as “A Game in Which Standard Pieces Composed of Cubes Are Assembled Into Larger Forms”
    • 60 · Recreational Topology · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1958, as “Four Mathematical Diversions Involving Concepts of Topology”
    • 69 · Phi: The Golden Ratio · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1958, as “How Rectangles, Including Squares, Can Be Divided Into Squares of Unequal Size”
    • 82 · The Monkey and the Coconuts · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1958, as “Concerning the Celebrated Puzzle of Five Sailors, a Monkey and a Pile of Coconuts”
    • 88 · Mazes · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1959, as “About Mazes and How They Can Be Traversed”
    • 94 · Recreational Logic · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1959, as ““Brain-Teasers” That Involve Formal Logic”
    • 104 · Magic Squares · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1959, as “Concerning the Properties of Various Magic Squares”
    • 111 · James Hugh Riley Shows, Inc. · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1959, as “The Mathematical Diversions of a Fictitious Carnival Man”
    • 120 · Nine More Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1959, as “Another Collection of “Brain-Teasers””
    • 130 · Eleusis: The Induction Game · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1959, as “An Inductive Card Game”
    • 137 · Origami · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1959, as “About Origami, the Japanese Art of Folding Objects out of Paper”
    • 146 · Squaring the Square · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1959, as “About phi, an Irrational Number That Has Some Remarkable Geometrical Expressions”
    • 165 · Mechanical Puzzles · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1959, as “Concerning Mechanical Puzzles, and How an Enthusiast Has Collected 2,000 of Them”
    • 171 · Probability and Ambiguity · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1959, as “Problems Involving Questions of Probability and Ambiguity”
    • 181 · References for Further Reading · Martin Gardner · ms

    Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers by Martin Gardner (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1989, 0-7167-1987-8, hc, nf)
    • · Penrose Tiling · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1977, as “Extraordinary Nonperiodic Tiling That Enriches the Theory of Tiles”
    • · Mandelbrot’s Fractals · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1976, as “In Which Monster Curves Force Redefinition of the Word “Curve””
    • · Conway’s Surreal Numbers · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1976, as “John Horton Conway’s Book Covers an Infinity of Games”
    • · Back from the Klondike and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1976, as “Combinatorial Problems, Some Old, Some New and All Newly Attacked by Computer”
    • · The Oulipo · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1977, as “The Flip-Strip Sonnet, the Lipogram and Other Mad Modes of Wordplay”
    • · Wythoff’s Nim · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1977, as “Cornering a Queen Leads Unexpectedly Into Corners of the Theory of Numbers”
    • · Pool-Ball Triangles and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1977, as “The Pool-Table Triangle, a Limerick Paradox and Divers Other Challenges”
    • · Mathematical Induction and Colored Hats · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1977, as “The “Jump Proof” and Its Similarity to the Toppling of a Row of Dominoes”
    • · Negative Numbers · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1977, as “The Concept of Negative Numbers and the Difficulty of Grasping It”
    • · Cutting Shapes Into N Congruent Parts · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1977, as “Cutting Things Into Equal Parts Leads Into Significant Areas of Mathematics”
    • · Trapdoor Ciphers · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1977, as “A New Kind of Cipher That Would Take Millions of Years to Break”
    • · Hyperbolas · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1977, as “On Conic Sections, Ruled Surfaces and Other Manifestations of the Hyperbola”
    • · The New Eleusis · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1977, as “On Playing New Eleusis, the Game That Simulates the Search for Truth”
    • · Ramsey Theory · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1977, as “In Which Joining Sets of Points by Lines Leads Into Diverse (And Diverting) Paths”
    • · From Burrs to Berrocal · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1978, as “The Sculpture of Miguel Berrocal Can Be Taken Apart Like an Interlocking Mechanical Puzzle”
    • · Sicherman Dice, the Kruskal Count and Other Curiosities · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1978, as “On Checker Jumping, the Amazon Game, Weird Dice, Card Tricks and Other Playful Pastimes”
    • · Raymond Smyllyan’s Logic Puzzles · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1978, as “Count Dracula, Alice, Portia and Many Others Consider Various Twists of Logic”

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