Martin Gardner bibliography

Books

Original works

• Match-ic, Illus. by Nelson C. Hahne;Ireland Magic Company.
• Here's New Magic: An Array of New and Original Magic Secrets "by Joe Berg", Illus. by Nelson C. Hahne; Chicago: Privately printed.
• 12 Tricks with a Borrowed Deck, Ireland Magic Company, illust. by Harlan Tarbell, intro. by Paul Rosini.
• After the Dessert, Max Holden, illust. by Nelson Hahne.
• Cut the Cards, Max Holden, illust. by Nelson Hahne.
• Over the Coffee Cups, Tulsa: Montandon Magic, illust. by the author
• In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present, G. P. Putnam's Sons
• *Republished as Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications;.
• Mathematics, Magic, and Mystery, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications,.Logic Machines and Diagrams, McGraw-Hill: New York
• * Republished as Logic Machines, Diagrams, and Boolean Algebra; Dover Publications, Inc.
• * 2nd edition as Logic Machines and Diagrams with introduction by Donald Michie, University of Chicago Press.
• Mathematical Puzzles, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell.
• *Reprinted w/corrections in 1986 as Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles, Dover;.
• Relativity for the Million ; New York: MacMillan Company.
• *Revised/updated 1976 as The Relativity Explosion New York: Vintage Books,.
• *Revised/enlarged 1997 as Relativity Simply Explained, New York: Dover;.
• The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds
• *2nd edition, 1969.
• *3rd edition, 1990 as The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings; W.H. Freeman & Company.
• *3rd edition, Revised, 2005, Dover;.
• Never Make Fun of a Turtle, My Son, Simon & Schuster
• The Flight of Peter Fromm, Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc. Prometheus Books.
• Confessions of a Psychic: The Secret Notebooks of Uriah Fuller, Teaneck, New Jersey: Karl Fulves.
• Aha! Insight, W.H. Freeman & Company;
• Further Confessions of a Psychic: The Secret Notebooks of Uriah Fuller, Teaneck, New Jersey: Karl Fulves; 70 pp.
• Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight, ; W.H. Freeman & Company;
• The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
• Baffling Brainteasers ; Davis Publications.
• The Wreck of the Titanic Foretold?
• *Revised 1998 edition, Prometheus Books.
• How Not to Test a Psychic: Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments with Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek, Prometheus Books
• The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy, Prometheus Books
• My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles, Dover;.
• A Die of Another Color ; Karl Fulves.
• Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery, Prometheus Books;
• The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays, Springer-Verlag
• Match Magic: More Than Seventy Impromptu Tricks With Matches, Piccadilly Books.
• Visitors from Oz, St. Martin's Press; .
• The Colossal Book of Wordplay, with Ken Jennings; Puzzlewright.
• Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner ; Princeton University Press

Collected columns, articles and reviews

• The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
• *Reprinted in 1988 as Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games, University of Chicago Press,.
• The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
• Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American, Simon & Schuster.
• The Numerology of Dr. Matrix: The Fabulous Feats and Adventures in Number Theory, Sleight of Word, and Numerological Analysis of That Incredible Master Mind, Simon & Schuster.
• *Reprinted/expanded as The Incredible Dr. Matrix: The World's Greatest Numerologist, Charles Scribner's Sons;.
• *Reprinted/expanded as The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix ; Prometheus Books;,, .
• Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions, Simon & Schuster.
• The Sixth Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, Simon & Schuster
• Mathematical Carnival, Vintage Books.
• Mathematical Magic Show, Vintage.
• Mathematical Circus, Vintage.
• Science Fiction Puzzle Tales, Random House
• *Reprinted as Mathematical Puzzle Tales, Mathematical Association of America.
• Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Prometheus Books;,,
• Order and Surprise, Prometheus Books,
• Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements, W. H. Freeman & Co.
• Puzzles from Other Worlds, Vintage
• Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments, W. H. Freeman & Co..
• Riddles of the Sphinx and other Mathematical Puzzle Tales, Mathematical Association of America,
• Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments, W.H. Freeman & Company;
• The No-Sided Professor and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy, Prometheus Books;.
• The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher, Prometheus Books;
• Gardner's Whys & Wherefores, University of Chicago Press.
• Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers, W. H. Freeman & Co..
• Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, W. H. Freeman
• On the Wild Side: The Big Bang, ESP, the Beast 666, Levitation, Rainmaking, Trance-Channeling, Seances and Ghosts, and More..., Prometheus Books;
• The Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic, Magic, Inc.
• *2nd edition, as Martin Gardner Presents; Kaufman and Greenberg.
• *3rd edition, as Impromptu; The Miracle Factory, with Todd Karr.
• Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher, Prometheus Books;
• The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995, St. Martin's Griffin;
• Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications, Springer Verlag;
• Martin Gardner's Table Magic, Dover;
• From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr.: On Science, Literature, and Religion, Prometheus Books;
• Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, W.W. Norton & Company;.
• A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit,.
• The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems, W.W. Norton & Company;
• Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics,
• Dana Scott Richards, editor, The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems, W.W. Norton & Company;.
• The Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings—both Serious and Whimsical, Prometheus Books;
• The Fantastic Fiction of Gilbert Chesterton: Essays on His Novels and Short Stories, Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box; .
• When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish and other Speculations about This and That, Hill and Wang;

As editor/annotator

• Great Essays in Science
• *Revised in 1984 as The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science, Prometheus Books;.
• The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was, Michigan State University Press
• *Revised edition, 1994; Michigan State University Press.
• Best Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd, New York: Dover.
• Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd, Volume 2, New York: Dover.
• The Annotated Alice, New York: Bramhall House Clarkson Potter.
• Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature by C.C. Bombaugh, Dover.
• The Annotated Snark, New York: Simon & Schuster.
• *2nd edition, 1974.
• *Revised in 1981 as The Hunting of the Snark: A Centennial Edition; Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann; Includes "The Designs of the Snark" by Charles Mitchell and a bibliography by Selwyn Goodacre.
• *Reprinted/revised in 2006 as The Annotated Hunting of the Snark: The Definitive Edition, Norton; Intro by Adam Gopnik.
• The Annotated Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, New York: Clarkson Potter.
• Philosophical Foundations of Physics: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science by Rudolf Carnap, Basic Books.
• *Republished w/corrections as An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Dover.
• Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney, Charles Scribner's Sons.
• *Expanded as 536 Curious Problems and Puzzles, Barnes and Noble.
• The Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey ; New York: Clarkson Potter.
• *2nd edition; Chicago: The University of Chicago Press..
• *3rd edition; New York: Dover Publications,.
• Carroll, Lewis, The Wasp in a Wig: A "Suppressed" Episode of 'Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There', Lewis Carroll Society of North America/C.N. Potter: Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1977.
• Fujimura, Kobon, The Tokyo Puzzles, Scribners.
• The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown, Oxford University Press, .
• More Annotated Alice, Random House;
• The Annotated Night Before Christmas: A Collection of Sequels, Parodies, And Imitations of Clement Moore's Immortal Ballad About Santa Claus Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Martin Gardner, Summit Books ;
• Kordemsky, Boris A., The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations.
• Peter Puzzlemaker Returns! More Puzzles for Problem Solvers ; Dale Seymour Publications
• Best Remembered Poems, Dover.
• Famous Poems From Bygone Days, Dover.
• Wells, H.G., "The Country of the Blind" and Other Science Fiction Stories, introduction by Gardner for each story.
• Carroll, Lewis, Phantasmagoria, Prometheus Books.
• Thompson, Silvanus P., Calculus Made Easy, St. Martin's Press;
• The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, W.W. Norton & Company;.
• The Annotated Thursday: G. K. Chesterton's Masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton.
• Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies, Prometheus Books;

For children

• Science Puzzlers, The Viking Press, Scholastic Book Services.
• * Slightly revised in 1981 as Entertaining Science Experiments With Everyday Objects; Dover;
• The Arrow Book of Brain Teasers, New York: Tab Books.
• Archimedes: Mathematician and Inventor ; MacMillan Co.
• Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers, Simon & Schuster.
• Space Puzzles: Curious Questions & Answers About the Solar System, Simon & Schuster.
• *Revised in 1997 as Puzzling Questions About the Solar System, Dover.
• The Snark Puzzle Book, Simon & Schuster.
• More Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers, Simon Pulse
• Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing , Dover;
• Classic Brainteasers, Sterling Publishing;
• Science Magic: Martin Gardner's Tricks and Puzzles, Sterling Pub. Co.
• *Reprinted as Martin Gardner's Science Magic: Tricks and Puzzles, Dover
• Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles, New York: Sterling Publishing Co.
• Smart Science Tricks, Sterling;.
• Optical Illusion Play Pack, Sterling
• The Adventures of Humphrey Huckleberry, Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box; ;.
• Mental Magic: Surefire Tricks to Amaze Your Friends, Dover.

As contributor

• "Speak Roughly", In: Guiliano, Edward, Lewis Carroll Observed, Clarkson N. Potter; Reprinted with additions in Gardner's Order and Surprise.
• Klarner, David A., editor, The Mathematical Gardner, Wadsworth International.
• *Reprinted in 1998 as Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner, Dover;
• "Lord Dunsany", In: Bleiler, E.F., editor, Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror; New York: Scribner's, pp. 471–478.
• Berlekamp, Elwyn R. and Tom Rodgers, editors,, A K Peters/CRC Press.
• Wolfe, David and Tom Rodgers, editors, Puzzlers' Tribute: A Feast for the Mind; Foreword by Arthur Clarke, A K Peters/CRC Press.
• Cipra, Barry Arthur, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, and Tom Rodgers, editors, Tribute to a Mathemagician, A K Peters/CRC Press.
• Demaine, Erik D., Martin L. Demaine and Tom Rodgers, editors, A Lifetime of Puzzles: A Collection of Puzzles in Honor of Martin Gardner's 90th Birthday; AK Peters.
• Pegg, Ed Jr., Alan H. Schoen and Tom Rodgers, editors, Mathematical Wizardry for a Gardner; AK Peters.
• Burstein, Mark, editor, A Bouquet for the Gardener: Martin Gardner Remembered, Lewis Carroll Society of North America.
• Henle, Michael and Brian Hopkins, editors, Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century, Mathematical Association of America

Provided introduction, preface, foreword, or afterword only

• Alice's Adventures Under Ground by Lewis Carroll: A Facsimile of the 1864 Manuscript, Dover.
• Marks, David and Richard Kammann,, The Psychology of the Psychic.
• American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum.
• A Dreamer's Tales, by Lord Dunsany.
• Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty by Raymond M. Smullyan.
• The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes by Rudy Rucker, Mariner Books.
• The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics by Roger Penrose
• The Napoleon of Notting Hill by G.K. Chesterton.
• Another Fine Math You've Got Me Into by Ian Stewart.
• The Conquest of Time by H.G. Wells
• Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought, by H. G. Wells.
• The Annotated Wizard of Oz, edited by Michael Patrick Hearn, New York: W.W. Norton & Company;.
• Magician's Magic by Paul Curry.
• Bamboozlers: The Book of Bankable Bar Betchas, Brain Bogglers, Belly Busters & Bewitchery by Diamond Jim Tyler, Diamond Jim Productions;.
• The Upside-Down World of Gustave Verbeek, Sunday Press Books;.
• Wells, H.G. and Hilaire Belloc, Mr Belloc Objects to 'The Outline of History' , Shelburne, Ontario: Battered Silicon Dispatch Box.
• The Coloured Lands by G.K. Chesterton.

"Mathematical Games": The ''Scientific American'' columns

1. The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions ; Simon & Schuster
2. *Reprinted in 1963 as The First Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions, Simon & Schuster
3. *Reprinted in 1988 as Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games, University of Chicago Press;.
4. *Reprinted in 2008 as Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games; ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
5. The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions, Simon & Schuster.
6. *Reprinted in 1987 by the University of Chicago Press;.
7. *Reprinted in 2008 as Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Diversions, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
8. Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American, Simon & Schuster
9. *Reprinted and revised in 1995 as New Mathematical Diversions, Mathematical Association of America.
10. *Reprinted in 2009 as Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi: Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
11. The Numerology of Dr. Matrix: The Fabulous Feats and Adventures in Number Theory, Sleight of Word, and Numerological Analysis of That Incredible Master Mind, New York: Simon & Schuster.
12. *Reprinted/expanded in 1979 as The Incredible Dr. Matrix, Scribner.
13. *Reprinted/expanded in 1985 as The Magic Numbers of Dr Matrix, Prometheus Books; /.
14. *Reprint forthcoming as Words, Numbers, and Combinatorics: Martin Gardner on the Trail of Dr. Matrix, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
15. The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions, Simon & Schuster.
16. *Reprinted in 1991 by the University of Chicago Press;.
17. *Reprinted in 2014 as Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
18. Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American, W.H. Freeman and Company
19. *Revised by the Mathematical Association of America, 2001.
20. *Reprint forthcoming as Klein Bottles, Op-Art, and Sliding Block Puzzles: More of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
21. Mathematical Carnival, Knopf.
22. *Revised with foreword by John H. Conway, Mathematical Association of America, 1992.
23. *Reprint forthcoming as Sprouts, Hypercubes, and Superellipses: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Carnival, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
24. Mathematical Magic Show, Knopf.
25. *Revised with foreword by Ronald L. Graham, Mathematical Association of America, 1990.
26. *Reprint forthcoming as Nothing and Everything, Polyominoes, and Game Theory: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Magic Show, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
27. Mathematical Circus, Knopf.
28. *Revised with foreword by Donald E. Knuth, Mathematical Association of America, 1992.
29. *Reprint forthcoming as Random Walks, Hyperspheres, and Palindromes: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Circus, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
30. Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements, W. H. Freeman & Co..
31. *Reprint forthcoming as Wheels, Life, and Knotted Molecules: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Amusements, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
32. Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments, W.H. Freeman & Co.;.
33. *Reprint forthcoming as Knotted Donuts, Napier's Bones, and Gray Codes: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Entertainments, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
34. Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments, W. H. Freeman & Co.;.
35. *Reprint forthcoming as Tangrams, Tilings, and Time Travel: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Bewilderments, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press
36. Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers, W. H. Freeman & Co.;.
37. *Reprint forthcoming as Penrose Tiles, Trapdoor Ciphers, and the Oulipo: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Tour, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
38. Fractal Music, Hypercards and More...: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American, W. H. Freeman & Co.
39. *Reprint forthcoming as Fractal Music, Hypercards, and Chaitin's Omega: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Recreations, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University Press.
40. Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications, Copernicus Books, Springer Verlag;.
41. *Reprint forthcoming as The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications: Martin Gardner's Last Mathematical Recreations, ; The Mathematical Association of America/Cambridge University.

• Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games, Mathematical Association of America;

Uncollected articles and stories

• Gardner, Martin, "Left or Right?", Esquire, Feb 1951 issue.
• Chung, Fan, Martin Gardner and Ron Graham,, Mathematics Magazine 62, 83–96, 1989.