* " In the Name of Skepticism: Martin Gardner's Misrepresentations of General Semantics ", by Bruce I. Kodish, appeared in General Semantics Bulletin, Number 71, 2004.

However, he is also known for lies and self-promotion, and criticized on these grounds — Martin Gardner's assessment continues " but also obviously a hustler ", Canadian puzzler Mel Stover called Loyd " an old reprobate ", and Matthew Costello calls him both " puzzledom's greatest celebrity ... popularizer, genius ," but also " huckster ... and fast-talking snake oil salesman.

The contents were subsequently published in Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition, and is also available as a hardback book The Wasp in a Wig: A Suppressed Episode ....

The game made its first public appearance in the October 1970 issue of Scientific American, in Martin Gardner's " Mathematical Games " column.

He became interested in mathematics after reading Martin Gardner's mathematical games column in Scientific American.

Mao is most likely descended from the German game Mau Mau, or from Eleusis, which was published in Martin Gardner's column in the Scientific American in June 1959.

However, it was first analyzed and was published in a philosophy paper spread to the philosophical community by Robert Nozick in 1969, and appeared in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column in 1974.

** Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi: Martin Gardner's First Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games ( Cambridge University Press, 2008 ; ISBN 0-521-73525-4 )

The title is an example of wordplay: it is an anagram of Mathematical Games, the title of Martin Gardner's column that Hofstadter's column succeeded in Scientific American.

MathTrek: Martin Gardner's Lucky Number

The game was invented by Robert Abbott in 1956, and was first published in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column in June 1959.

During Gardner's lifetime, she welcomed artists, performers, and scholars to Fenway Court to draw inspiration from the rich collection and dazzling Venetian setting, including John Singer Sargent, Charles Martin Loeffler, and Ruth St. Denis, among others.

As described by Martin Gardner in Gardner's Workout, the number of distinct solutions to this problem was incorrectly estimated by Rouse Ball to be 72, and persisted many years before it was shown to be 144 by Kathleen Ollerenshaw.

The problem appeared in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

It is in the tradition of Martin Gardner's Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science and Charles Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds.

Abbott also invented logic mazes, the first of which appeared in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the October 1962 issue of Scientific American.

His first puzzles appeared in Scientific American in Martin Gardner's " Mathematical Games " column.

For example, Jurassic Park featured dinosaur illustrations that included dinosaur sounds based upon descriptions in the text ; The Annotated Alice provided pop-up annotations derived from both editions of Martin Gardner's work.

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science ( 1957 ) -- originally published in 1952 as In the Name of Science: An Entertaining Survey of the High Priests and Cultists of Science, Past and Present -- was Martin Gardner's second book.

Michael Shermer said of it: " Modern skepticism has developed into a science-based movement, beginning with Martin Gardner's 1952 classic ".

* Several fictional characters have also been called mathemagicians, such as Martin Gardner's " Victor Eigen.

Martin Gardner's Table Magic, Dover ; ISBN 0-486-40403-X.

The American science writer Martin Gardner's review in Nature called Bare-faced Messiah an " admirable, meticulously documented biography ".

The building is over with meeting rooms and special collections housing 60, 000 volumes of works specializing in science, skepticism, freethought, humanism, and American philosophical naturalism, and includes the complete line of Prometheus Books titles, a collection of Martin Gardner's books and papers, Steve Allen's manuscripts, and other special holdings.

* Jonathan M. Blackledge, Martin Turner: Digital Signal Processing: Mathematical and Computational Methods, Software Development and Applications, Horwood Publishing, ISBN 1-898563-48-9

When Martin Gardner retired from writing his " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine, Hofstadter succeeded him in 1981 – 1983 with a column entitled Metamagical Themas ( an anagram of " Mathematical Games ").

: Mathematical Games was a column written by Martin Gardner that appeared in the Scientific American.

* Martin Gardner, author of Mathematical Games, a long running column in Scientific American

in Martin Gardner: The Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd.

* Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd ( ISBN 0-486-20498-7 ): selected and edited by Martin Gardner

* More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd ( ISBN 0-486-20709-9 ): selected and edited by Martin Gardner

Soma has been discussed in detail by Martin Gardner and John Horton Conway, and the book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays contains a detailed analysis of the Soma cube problem.

In the June 1968 edition of Scientific American, Martin Gardner described in his " Mathematical Games " column a game by C. L. Baker that is similar to FreeCell, except that cards on the tableau are built by suit rather than by alternate colors.

* Mathematical Circus, Martin Gardner 1979 ISBN 0-14-022355-X ( Chapter 1 – Optical Illusions )

– in Gardner, Martin: Mathematical Carnival.

In March of the following year, Martin Gardner wrote about the Ulam spiral in his Mathematical Games column ; the Ulam spiral featured on the front cover of the issue of Scientific American in which the column appeared.

Flexagons were introduced to the general public by the recreational mathematician Martin Gardner, writing in 1956 in his inaugural " Mathematical Games " column for Scientific American magazine.

* Martin Gardner has written an excellent introduction to hexaflexagons in one of his Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American.

The rules for the game, and a sample track game was published in Car and Driver magazine, in July 1973 ( page 65 ), and again by Martin Gardner in 1983 in his " Mathematical Games " column in Scientific American.

* Martin Gardner begins his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

The number gained a degree of popular attention when Martin Gardner described it in the " Mathematical Games " section of Scientific American in November 1977, writing that, " In an unpublished proof, Graham has recently established ... a bound so vast that it holds the record for the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof.

Dewdney followed Martin Gardner and Douglas Hofstadter in authoring Scientific American's recreational mathematics column, which he renamed to " Computer Recreations ", then " Mathematical Recreations ", from 1984 to 1993 ( with the last few appearing in Algorithm ).

* Martin Schottenloher, A Mathematical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 1997.

Many of the puzzles are well known because they were discussed by Martin Gardner in his " Mathematical Games " column in Scientific American.