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    Fractal Music, Hypercards and More…: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American by Martin Gardner (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1992, hc, nf)
    • · White, Brown, and Fractal Music · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1978, as “White and Brown Music, Fractal Curves and One-Over-F Fluctuations”
    • · The Tinkly Temple Bells · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1978, as “The Bells: Versatile Numbers That Can Count Partitions of a Set, Primes and Even Rhymes”
    • · Mathematical Zoo · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1978, as “A Mathematical Zoo of Astounding Critters, Imaginary and Otherwise”
    • · Charles Sanders Peirce · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1978, as “On Charles Sanders Peirce: Philosopher and Gamesman”
    • · Twisted Prismatic Rings · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1978, as “A Möbius Band Has a Finite Thickness, and So It Is Actually a Twisted Prism”
    • · The Thirty Color Cubes · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1978, as “Puzzling Over a Problem-Solving Matrix, Cubes of Many Colors and Three-Dimensional Dominoes”
    • · Egyptian Fractions · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1978, as “Puzzles and Number-Theory Problems Arising from the Curious Fractions of Ancient Egypt”
    • · Minimal Sculpture · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1978, as “In Which a Mathematical Aesthetic Is Applied to Modern Minimal Art”
    • · Tangent Circles · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1979, as “The Diverse Pleasures of Circles That Are Tangent to One Another”
    • · The Rotating Table and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1979, as “About Rectangling Rectangles, Parodying Poe and Many Another Pleasing Problem”
    • · Does Time Ever Stop? Can the Past Be Altered? · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1979, as “On Altering the Past, Delaying the Future and Other Ways of Tampering with Time”
    • · Generalized Ticktacktoe · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1979, as “In Which Players of Tic-Tac-Toe Are Taught to Hunt Bigger Game”
    • · Psychic Wonders and Probability · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1979, as “How to Be a Psychic, Even if You Are a Horse or Some Other Animal”
    • · Mathematical Chess Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1979, as “Chess Problems on a Higher Plane, Including Mirror Images, Rotations and the Superqueen”
    • · Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1979, as “Douglas R. Hofstadter’s “Gödel, Escher, Bach””
    • · Imaginary Numbers · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1979, as “The Imaginableness of the Imaginary Numbers”
    • · Pi and Poetry: Some Accidental Patterns · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1979, as “In Some Patterns of Numbers or Words There May Be Less Than Meets the Eye”
    • · Packing Squares · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1979, as “Some Packing Problems That Cannot Be Solved by Sitting on the Suitcase”
    • · Chaitin’s Omega · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1979, as “The Random Number Omega Bids Fair to Hold the Mysteries of the Universe”

    Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments by Martin Gardner (W.H. Freeman & Co., 1986, 0-7167-1799-9, hc, nf)
    • · Coincidence · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1972, as “Why the Long Arm of Coincidence Is Usually Not As Long As It Seems”
    • · The Binary Gray Code · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American August 1972, as “The Curious Properties of the Gray Code and How It Can Be Used to Solve Puzzles”
    • · Polycubes · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1972, as “Pleasurable Problems with Polycubes, and the Winning Strategy for Slither”
    • · Bacon’s Cipher · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1972, as “On the Practical Uses and Bizarre Abuses of Sir Francis Bacon’s Biliteral Cipher”
    • · Doughnuts: Linked and Knotted · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1972, as “Knotty Problems with a Two-Hole Torus”
    • · The Tour of the Arrows and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American May 1973, as “A New Miscellany of Problems, and Encores for Race Track, Sim, Chomp and Elevators”
    • · Napier’s Bones · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1973, as “The Calculating Rods of John Napier, the Eccentric Father of the Logarithm”
    • · Napier’s Abacus · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1973, as “How to Turn a Chessboard Into a Computer and to Calculate with Negabinary Numbers”
    • · Sim, Chomp, and Race Track · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1973, as “Sim, Chomp and Race Track: New Games for the Intellect (And Not for Lady Luck)”
    • · Elevators · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1973, as “Up-And-Down Elevator Games and Piet Hein’s Mechanical Puzzles”
    • · Crossing Numbers · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American June 1973, as “Plotting the Crossing Number of Graphs”
    • · Point Sets on the Sphere · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American September 1973, as “Problems on the Surface of a Sphere Offer an Entertaining Introduction to Point Sets”
    • · Newcomb’s Paradox · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American July 1973, as “Free Will Revisited, with a Mind-Bending Prediction Paradox by William Newcomb”
    • · Reflections on Newcomb’s Paradox · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American March 1974, as “Reflections on Newcomb’s Problem: a Prediction and Free-Will Dilemma”
    • · Reverse the Fish and Other Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American April 1974, as “Nine Challenging Problems, Some Rational and Some Not”
    • · Look-See Proofs · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American October 1973, as ““Look-See” Diagrams That Offer Visual Proof of Complex Algebraic Formulas”
    • · Worm Paths · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American November 1973, as “Paterson’s Worms, Fantastic Patterns Traced by Programmed “Worms””
    • · Waring’s Problems · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1973, as “On Expressing Integers As the Sum of Cubes and Other Unsolved Number-Theory Problems”
    • · Cram, Bynum and Quadraphage · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American February 1974, as “Cram, Crosscram and Quadraphage: New Games Having Elusive Winning Strategies”
    • · The I Ching · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American January 1974, as “The Combinatorial Basis of the “I Ching,” the Chinese Book of Divination and Wisdom”
    • · The Laffer Curve · Martin Gardner · ar Scientific American December 1981, as “The Laffer Curve and Other Laughs in Current Economics”

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