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Tetrahedrons in Nature and Architecture, and Puzzles Involving This Simplest Polyhedron, (ar) Scientific American February 1965
A New Group of Short Problems, (ar) Scientific American March 1965
The Infinite Regress in Philosophy, Literature and Mathematical Proof, (ar) Scientific American April 1965
The Lattice of Integers Considered As an Orchard or a Billiard Table, (ar) Scientific American May 1965
Some Diversions and Problems from Mr. O’gara, the Postman, (ar) Scientific American June 1965
On the Relation Between Mathematics and the Ordered Patterns of Op Art, (ar) Scientific American July 1965
Thoughts on the Task of Communication with Intelligent Organisms on Other Worlds, (ar) Scientific American August 1965
The Superellipse: a Curve That Lies Between the Ellipse and the Rectangle, (ar) Scientific American September 1965
Pentominoes and Polyominoes: Five Games and a Sampling of Problems, (ar) Scientific American October 1965
A Selection of Elementary Word and Number Problems, (ar) Scientific American November 1965
Magic Stars, Graphs and Polyhedrons, (ar) Scientific American December 1965
Coleridge and “The Ancient Mariner”, (ar) The Annotated Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Clarkson Potter, 1965
Dr. Matrix Returns, Now in the Guise of a Neo-Freudian Psychonumeranalyst, (ar) Scientific American January 1966
Recreational Numismatics, or a Purse of Coin Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American February 1966
The Hierarchy of Infinities and the Problems It Spawns, (ar) Scientific American March 1966
The Eerie Mathematical Art of Maurits C. Escher, (ar) Scientific American April 1966
How to Cook a Puzzle, or Mathematical One-Uppery, (ar) Scientific American May 1966
The Persistence (And Futility) of Efforts to Trisect the Angle, (ar) Scientific American June 1966
Freud’s Friend Wilhelm Fliess and His Theory of Male and Female Life Cycles, (ar) Scientific American July 1966
Puzzles That Can Be Solved by Reasoning Based on Elementary Physical Principles, (ar) Scientific American August 1966
The Problem of Mrs. Perkins’ Quilt, (ar) Scientific American September 1966
Can the Shuffling of Cards (And Other Apparently Random Events) Be Reversed?, (ar) Scientific American October 1966
Is It Possible to Visualize a Four-Dimensional Figure?, (ar) Scientific American November 1966
The Multiple Charms of Pascal’s Triangle, (ar) Scientific American December 1966
Martin Gardner’s New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American, (nf) Simon & Schuster (hc), 1966
Introduction, (in) Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, Pelican, 1966, etc.
References for Further Reading, (ms) Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, Pelican, 1966, etc.
Dr. Matrix Delivers a Talk on Acrostics, (ar) Scientific American January 1967
Mathematical Strategies for Two-Person Contests, (ar) Scientific American February 1967
[letter from Hastings-on-Hudson], (lt) Kalki #4, February 1967
An Array of Problems That Can Be Solved with Elementary Mathematical Techniques, (ar) Scientific American March 1967
The Amazing Feats of Professional Mental Calculators, and Some Tricks of the Trade, (ar) Scientific American April 1967
Cube-Root Extraction and the Calendar Trick, or How to Cheat in Mathematics, (ar) Scientific American May 1967
The Polyhex and the Polyabolo, Polygonal Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces, (ar) Scientific American June 1967
Of Sprouts and Brussels Sprouts, Games with a Topological Flavor, (ar) Scientific American July 1967
In Which a Computer Prints Out Mammoth Polygonal Factorials, (ar) Scientific American August 1967
Double Acrostics, Stylized Victorian Ancestors of Today’s Crossword Puzzle, (ar) Scientific American September 1967
Problems That Are Built on the Knight’s Move in Chess, (ar) Scientific American October 1967
A Mixed Bag of Logical and Illogical Problems to Solve, (ar) Scientific American November 1967
Game Theory Is Applied (For a Change) to Games, (ar) Scientific American December 1967
More About Mother, and Elsewhere, (ar) Kalki #5, 1967
The Son of the Mighty Casey, (pm) The Annotated Casey at the Bat ed. Martin Gardner, Clarkson Potter, 1967, as by Nitram Rendrag
The Beauties of the Square, As Expounded by Dr. Matrix to Rehabilitate the Hippie, (ar) Scientific American January 1968
Combinatorial Problems Involving Tree Graphs and Forests of Trees, (ar) Scientific American February 1968
A Short Treatise on the Useless Elegance of Perfect Numbers and Amicable Pairs, (ar) Scientific American March 1968
Puzzles and Tricks with a Dollar Bill, (ar) Scientific American April 1968
Circles and Spheres, and How They Kiss and Pack, (ar) Scientific American May 1968
Combinatorial Possibilities in a Pack of Shuffled Cards, (ar) Scientific American June 1968
On the Meaning of Randomness and Some Ways of Achieving It, (ar) Scientific American July 1968
An Array of Puzzles and Tricks, with a Few Traps for the Unwary, (ar) Scientific American August 1968
Counting Systems and the Relationship Between Numbers and the Real World, (ar) Scientific American September 1968
Macmahon’s Color Triangles and the Joys of Fitting Them Together, (ar) Scientific American October 1968
On the Ancient Lore of Dice and the Odds Against Making a Point, (ar) Scientific American November 1968
The World of the Möbius Strip: Endless, Edgeless and One-Sided, (ar) Scientific American December 1968
Ettarre an Anagram?, (ar) Kalki #7, 1968 [Ref. James Branch Cabell]
[letter from Hastings-on-Hudson, NY], (lt) Kalki #7, 1968
Dr. Matrix Gives His Explanation of Why Mr. Nixon Was Elected President, (ar) Scientific American January 1969
Boolean Algebra, Venn Diagrams and the Propositional Calculus, (ar) Scientific American February 1969
The Multiple Fascinations of the Fibonacci Sequence, (ar) Scientific American March 1969
An Octet of Problems That Emphasize Gamesmanship, Logic and Probability, (ar) Scientific American April 1969
The Rambling Random Walk and Its Gambling Equivalent, (ar) Scientific American May 1969
Random Walks, by Semidrunk Bugs and Others, on the Square and on the Cube, (ar) Scientific American June 1969
Tricks, Games and Puzzles That Employ Matches As Counters and Line Segments, (ar) Scientific American July 1969
Simplicity As a Scientific Concept: Does Nature Keep Her Accounts on a Thumbnail?, (ar) Scientific American August 1969
Geometric Constructions with a Compass and a Straightedge, and Also with a Compass Alone, (ar) Scientific American September 1969
A Numeranalysis by Dr. Matrix of the Lunar Flight of Apollo 11, (ar) Scientific American October 1969
A New Pencil-And-Paper Game Based on Inductive Reasoning, (ar) Scientific American November 1969
A Handful of Combinatorial Problems Based on Dominoes, (ar) Scientific American December 1969
The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions, (nf) Simon & Schuster (hc), 1969
The Abacus: Primitive but Effective Digital Computer, (ar) Scientific American January 1970
Nine New Puzzles to Solve, (ar) Scientific American February 1970
Cyclic Numbers and Their Properties, (ar) Scientific American March 1970
Some Mathematical Curiosities Embedded in the Solar System, (ar) Scientific American April 1970
Of Optical Illusions, from Figures That Are Undecidable to Hot Dogs That Float, (ar) Scientific American May 1970
Elegant Triangle Theorems Not to Be Found in Euclid, (ar) Scientific American June 1970
Diophantine Analysis and the Problem of Fermat’s Legendary Last Theorem, (ar) Scientific American July 1970
Backward Run Numbers, Letters, Words and Sentences Until Boggles the Mind, (ar) Scientific American August 1970
On the Cyclical Curves Generated by Wheels That Roll Along Wheels, (ar) Scientific American September 1970
The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway’s New Solitaire Game “Life”, (ar) Scientific American October 1970
A New Collection of Short Problems and the Answers to Some of “Life’s”, (ar) Scientific American November 1970
The Paradox of the Nontransitive Dice and the Elusive Principle of Indifference, (ar) Scientific American December 1970
Lessons from Dr. Matrix in Chess and Numerology, (ar) Scientific American January 1971
On Cellular Automata, Self-Reproduction, the Garden of Eden and the Game “Life”, (ar) Scientific American February 1971
The Orders of Infinity, the Topological Nature of Dimension and “Supertasks”, (ar) Scientific American March 1971
Geometric Fallacies: Hidden Errors Pave the Road to Absurd Conclusions, (ar) Scientific American April 1971
The Combinatorial Richness of Folding a Piece of Paper, (ar) Scientific American May 1971
The Turing Game and the Question It Presents: Can a Computer Think?, (ar) Scientific American June 1971
Quickie Problems: Not Hard, but Look Out for the Curves, (ar) Scientific American July 1971
Ticktacktoe and Its Complications, (ar) Scientific American August 1971
The Plaiting of Plato’s Polyhedrons and the Asymmetrical Yin-Yang-Lee, (ar) Scientific American September 1971
New Puzzles from the Game of Halma, the Noble Ancestor of Chinese Checkers, (ar) Scientific American October 1971
Advertising Premiums to Beguile the Mind: Classics by Sam Loyd, Master Puzzle-Poser, (ar) Scientific American November 1971
Further Encounters with Touching Cubes, and the Paradoxes of Zeno As “Supertasks”, (ar) Scientific American December 1971
Martin Gardner’s Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American, (nf) W.H. Freeman & Co. (hc), 1971
How to Triumph at Nim by Playing Safe, and John Horton Conway’s Game “Hackenbush”, (ar) Scientific American January 1972
Dr. Matrix Poses Some Heteroliteral Puzzles While Peddling Perpetual Motion in Houston, (ar) Scientific American February 1972
The Graceful Graphs of Solomon Golomb, or How to Number a Graph Parsimoniously, (ar) Scientific American March 1972
A Topological Problem with a Fresh Twist, and Eight Other New Recreational Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American April 1972
Challenging Chess Tasks for Puzzle Buffs and Answers to the Recreational Problems, (ar) Scientific American May 1972
A Miscellany of Transcendental Problems: Simple to State but Not at All Easy to Solve, (ar) Scientific American June 1972
Amazing Mathematical Card Tricks That Do Not Require Prestidigitation, (ar) Scientific American July 1972
The Curious Properties of the Gray Code and How It Can Be Used to Solve Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American August 1972
Pleasurable Problems with Polycubes, and the Winning Strategy for Slither, (ar) Scientific American September 1972
Why the Long Arm of Coincidence Is Usually Not As Long As It Seems, (ar) Scientific American October 1972
On the Practical Uses and Bizarre Abuses of Sir Francis Bacon’s Biliteral Cipher, (ar) Scientific American November 1972
Knotty Problems with a Two-Hole Torus, (ar) Scientific American December 1972
Sim, Chomp and Race Track: New Games for the Intellect (And Not for Lady Luck), (ar) Scientific American January 1973
Up-And-Down Elevator Games and Piet Hein’s Mechanical Puzzles, (ar) Scientific American February 1973
The Calculating Rods of John Napier, the Eccentric Father of the Logarithm, (ar) Scientific American March 1973
How to Turn a Chessboard Into a Computer and to Calculate with Negabinary Numbers, (ar) Scientific American April 1973
A New Miscellany of Problems, and Encores for Race Track, Sim, Chomp and Elevators, (ar) Scientific American May 1973
Plotting the Crossing Number of Graphs, (ar) Scientific American June 1973
Free Will Revisited, with a Mind-Bending Prediction Paradox by William Newcomb, (ar) Scientific American July 1973
An Astounding Self-Test of Clairvoyance by Dr. Matrix, (ar) Scientific American August 1973
Problems on the Surface of a Sphere Offer an Entertaining Introduction to Point Sets, (ar) Scientific American September 1973
“Look-See” Diagrams That Offer Visual Proof of Complex Algebraic Formulas, (ar) Scientific American October 1973
Paterson’s Worms, Fantastic Patterns Traced by Programmed “Worms”, (ar) Scientific American November 1973
On Expressing Integers As the Sum of Cubes and Other Unsolved Number-Theory Problems, (ar) Scientific American December 1973
The Combinatorial Basis of the “I Ching,” the Chinese Book of Divination and Wisdom, (ar) Scientific American January 1974
Cram, Crosscram and Quadraphage: New Games Having Elusive Winning Strategies, (ar) Scientific American February 1974
Reflections on Newcomb’s Problem: a Prediction and Free-Will Dilemma, (ar) Scientific American March 1974
Nine Challenging Problems, Some Rational and Some Not, (ar) Scientific American April 1974
On the Contradictions of Time Travel, (ar) Scientific American May 1974
Dr. Matrix Brings His Numerological Science to Bear on the Occult Powers of the Pyramid, (ar) Scientific American June 1974
On the Patterns and the Unusual Properties of Figurate Numbers, (ar) Scientific American July 1974
On the Fanciful History and the Creative Challenges of the Puzzle Game of Tangrams, (ar) Scientific American August 1974
House on Fire [Humpty Dumpty Junior], (ss) Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine for Little Children #220, September 1974
More on Tangrams: Combinatorial Problems and the Game Possibilities of Snug Tangrams, (ar) Scientific American September 1974
The Popperism of Sir Karl, (br) The New Leader October 14 1974
On the Paradoxical Situations That Arise from Nontransitive Relations, (ar) Scientific American October 1974
Some New and Dramatic Demonstrations of Number Theorems with Playing Cards, (ar) Scientific American November 1974
The Arts As Combinatorial Mathematics, or How to Compose Like Mozart with Dice, (ar) Scientific American December 1974
The Curious Magic of Anamorphic Art, (ar) Scientific American January 1975
How the Absence of Anything Leads to Thoughts of Nothing, (ar) Scientific American February 1975
The Significance of “Nothing”, (ar) Scientific American February 1975
From Rubber Ropes to Rolling Cubes, a Miscellany of Refreshing Problems, (ar) Scientific American March 1975
Six Sensational Discoveries That Somehow or Another Have Escaped Public Attention, (ar) Scientific American April 1975
On the Remarkable Császár Polyhedron and Its Applications in Problem Solving, (ar) Scientific American May 1975
Games of Strategy for Two Players: Star Nim, Meander, Dodgem and Rex, (ar) Scientific American June 1975
Laugh, Bird, Laugh [Humpty Dumpty Junior], (ss) Humpty Dumpty’s Magazine for Little Children #229, July 1975
On Tessellating the Plane with Convex Polygon Tiles, (ar) Scientific American July 1975
More About Tiling the Plane: the Possibilities of Polyominoes, Polyiamonds, and Polyhexes, (ar) Scientific American August 1975
Dr. Matrix Finds Numerological Wonders in the King James Bible, (ar) Scientific American September 1975
On Map Projections (With Special Reference to Some Inspired Ones), (ar) Scientific American November 1975
A Random Assortment of Puzzles, Together with Reader Responses to Earlier Problems, (ar) Scientific American December 1975
Mathematical Carnival, (nf) Knopf (hc), 1975
A Breakthrough in Magic Squares, and the First Perfect Magic Cube, (ar) Scientific American January 1976
Some Elegant Brick-Packing Problems, and a New Order-7 Perfect Magic Cube, (ar) Scientific American February 1976
On the Fabric of Inductive Logic, and Some Probability Paradoxes, (ar) Scientific American March 1976
Snarks, Boojums and Other Conjectures Related to the Four-Color-Map Theorem, (ar) Scientific American April 1976
A Few Words About Everything There Was, Is and Ever Will Be, (ar) Scientific American May 1976
Catalan Numbers: an Integer Sequence That Materializes in Unexpected Places, (ar) Scientific American June 1976
Fun and Serious Business with the Small Electronic Calculator, (ar) Scientific American July 1976
The Symmetrical Arrangement of the Stars on the American Flag and Related Matters, (ar) Scientific American August 1976
John Horton Conway’s Book Covers an Infinity of Games, (ar) Scientific American September 1976
Combinatorial Problems, Some Old, Some New and All Newly Attacked by Computer, (ar) Scientific American October 1976
In Which Dm (Dr. Matrix) Is Revealed As the Guru of Pm (Pentagonal Meditation), (ar) Scientific American November 1976
In Which Monster Curves Force Redefinition of the Word “Curve”, (ar) Scientific American December 1976
The Irrelevance of Conan Doyle, (ar) Beyond Baker Street ed. Michael Harrison, Bobbs-Merrill, 1976

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