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    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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