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List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns

Over a period of 24 years (January 1957 – December 1980), Martin Gardner wrote 288 consecutive monthly "Mathematical Games" columns for Scientific American magazine. During the next 5+1⁄2 years, through June 1986, Gardner wrote 9 more columns, bringing his total to 297. During this period other authors wrote most of the columns. In 1981, Gardner's column alternated with a new column by Douglas Hofstadter called "Metamagical Themas" (an anagram of "Mathematical Games").[1] The table below lists Gardner's columns.[2]

Twelve of Gardner's columns provided the cover art for that month's magazine, indicated by "[cover]" in the table with a hyperlink to the cover.[3]

Other articles by Gardner

Gardner wrote 5 other articles for Scientific American. His flexagon article in December 1956 was in all but name the first article in the series of Mathematical Games columns and led directly to the series which began the following month.[6] These five articles are listed below.

References

  1. ^ ""Stories by Douglas R. Hofstadter". Scientific American.
  2. ^ a b Scientific American January 1957 Issue: Mathematical Games Note: See this page and other similar pages indexed by date for all entries in the main table
  3. ^ A Gardner's Dozen—Martin's Scientific American Cover Stories.
  4. ^ Scientific American February 1957 Issue: Mathematical Games Note: See this page and other similar pages indexed by date for all entries in the main table
  5. ^ Gardner, Martin (1977). "A new kind of cipher that would take millions of years to break" (PDF). math.upenn.edu. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
  6. ^ Book review of Martin Gardner's Undiluted Hocus-Pocus by Teller, The New York Times, January 3, 2014
  7. ^ Scientific American March 1952 Issue: Logic Machines
  8. ^ Scientific American December 1956 Issue: Flexagons
  9. ^ Scientific American January 1967 Issue: Can Time go Backward?
  10. ^ Scientific American August 1998 Issue: A Quarter-Century of Recreational Mathematics
  11. ^ Scientific American April 2007 Issue: Is Beauty Truth and Truth Beauty? How Keats's famous line applies to math and science Review of Why Beauty is Truth: A History of Symmetry, by Ian Stewart

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