Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner is the author of The New Ambidextrous Universe, Fractal Music, Hypercards and More, and The Night is Large. His most recent book is a novel, Visitors from Oz. (September 1998)
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December 3, 1998: The New New Math (letter)
December 3, 1998: Sandra's Math Block (letter)
September 24, 1998: The New New Math
Multicultural and Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom: The Gift of Diversity (1997 Yearbook) edited by Janet Trentacosta, by Margaret J. Kenney
Focus on Algebra: An Integrated Approach by Randall I. Charles, by Alba González Thompson
Life by the Numbers: Math As You've Never Seen It Before narrated by Danny Glover. Seven boxed videotapes produced by WQED, Pittsburgh
September 25, 1997: A Friend in Prison (letter)
May 29, 1997: How He Lost It
I Was Wrong by Jim Bakker
Tammy: Telling It My Way by Tammy Faye Messner
December 3, 1992: A–Symmetry
Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? by Ian Stewart, by Martin Golubitsky
Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature by Michael Field, by Martin Golubitsky
M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry by Doris Schattschneider
Wordplay:Ambigrams and Reflections on the Art of Ambigrams by John Langdon
June 15, 1989: Ghosts & Poltergeists (letter)
March 16, 1989: Beauty in Numbers
Mathematics: The New Golden Age by Keith Devlin
Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone
February 16, 1989: Paranormal Companionship (letter)
June 30, 1988: Seeing Stars
Where's the Rest of Me? by Ronald Reagan, by Richard G. Hubler
Astrology for Adults by Joan Quigley
Astrology for Teens by Angel Star (Joan Quigley)
Astrology for Parents of Children and Teenagers by Joan Quigley
June 16, 1988: The Ultimate Turtle
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking, introduction by Carl Sagan
June 2, 1988: More Bumps on the Head (letter)
May 12, 1988: The Michelson-Morley Experiment (letter)
March 17, 1988: Bumps on the Head
Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America edited by Arthur Wrobel
March 3, 1988: An Infinity of Points (letter)
December 3, 1987: Count Up
To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite by Eli Maor
Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality by Rudy Rucker
August 13, 1987: Giving God a Hand
Oral Roberts: An American Life by David Edwin Harrell Jr.
Miracles of Seed-Faith by Oral Roberts
The Holy Spirit in the Now by Oral Roberts
He's the God of a Second Chance! by Richard Roberts
Ashes to Gold by Patti Roberts, by Sherry Andrews
I Gotta Be Me by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley
Run to the Roar by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley
To Cross a River by Jimmy Swaggart, with Robert Paul Lamb
The Pre-Adamic Creation and Evolution by Jimmy Swaggart
Catholicism and Christianity by Jimmy Swaggart
Shout it From the Housetops by Pat Robertson, with Jamie Buckingham
Beyond Reason: How Miracles Can Change Your Life by Pat Robertson, with William Proctor
Answers to 200 of Life's Most Probing Questions by Pat Robertson
Salvation for Sale: An Insider's View of Pat Robertson's Ministry by Gerard Thomas Straub
April 9, 1987: Isness Is Her Business
Out on a Limb by Shirley MacLaine
'Out on a Limb' an ABC TV miniseries written by Colin Higgins, by Shirley MacLaine
Dancing in the Light by Shirley MacLaine
Ramtha edited by Steven Lee Weinberg
December 4, 1986: Secrets of the Old One
Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test by Clifford M. Will
December 4, 1986: The FAP Flop (letter)
May 8, 1986: WAP, SAP, PAP, & FAP
The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow, by Frank J. Tipler, with a foreword by John A. Wheeler
March 27, 1986: Niebuhr & Supernaturalism (letter)
June 13, 1985: Physics: The End of the Road?
Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature by Paul Davies
Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Heinz R. Pagels
November 8, 1984: Trade Secrets (letter)
March 15, 1984: Quiz Kids
The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present by Steven B. Smith
January 21, 1982: Facing Up to Realism (letter)
August 13, 1981: Is Mathematics for Real?
The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis, by Reuben Hersh
April 2, 1981: More On Ape Talk
February 19, 1981: Claims for ESP (letter)
December 18, 1980: Parapsychology & Physics (letter)
December 18, 1980: Parapsychology & Physics (letter)
June 26, 1980: Parapsychology: An Exchange
May 15, 1980: An Expense of Spirit
March 20, 1980: Monkey Business
Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language by Herbert S. Terrace
Speaking of Apes: A Critical Anthology of Two-Way Communication with Man edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, edited by Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok
March 6, 1980: Velikovsky's Deluge (letter)
October 25, 1979: Not a Mountebank (letter)
October 25, 1979: Not a Mountebank (letter)
June 14, 1979: Eternal Riddles
Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science by Carl Sagan
May 17, 1979: Quantum Theory and Quack Theory
November 23, 1978: Hello and Goodbye
Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record by Carl Sagan, by F.D. Drake, by Ann Druyan, by Timothy Ferris, by Jon Lomberg, by Linda Salzman Sagan
Spaceships of the Mind by Nigel Calder
In the Center of Immensities by Bernard Lovell, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen
June 15, 1978: The Charms of Catastrophe
Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: An Outline of a General Theory of Models by René Thom, translated by D.H. Fowler, with a foreword by C.H. Waddington
Catastrophe Theory: Selected Papers 1972-1977 by E.C. Zeeman
Catastrophe Theory by Alexander Woodcock, by Monte Davis
Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications by Tim Poston, by Ian Stewart
March 23, 1978: Close Encounters (letter)
January 26, 1978: The Third Coming
Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed and written by Steven Spielberg, produced by Julia Phillips, by Michael Phillips. Released by Columbia Pictures
Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg
The Hynek UFO Report by Dr. J. Allen Hynek
December 8, 1977: Only Joking (letter)
October 13, 1977: Psi and Science (letter)
September 29, 1977: The Holes in Black Holes
The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes by Isaac Asimov
Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes by Robert M. Wald
The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics by Nigel Calder
Space and Time in the Modern Universe by P.C.W. Davies
Ten Faces of the Universe by Fred Hoyle
The Iron Sun: Crossing the Universe Through Black Holes by Adrian Berry
White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe by John Gribbin
July 14, 1977: ESP at Random
May 12, 1977: Bang!
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg
March 17, 1977: Supergull
Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability by Russell Targ, by Harold Puthoff
The Search for Superman by John L. Wilhelm
January 22, 1976: Pioneer (letter)
December 11, 1975: Strawberry Shortcut
Powers of Mind by Adam Smith
October 30, 1975: Paranonsense
Superminds: A Scientist Looks at the Paranormal by John Taylor
The Magic of Uri Geller by the Amazing Randi
June 12, 1975: Not Freud's Discovery (letter)
July 18, 1974: Trick or Treatment (letter)
May 16, 1974: What Hath Hoova Wrought?
Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller by Andrija Puharich
Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife by John G. Fuller
February 21, 1974: Turning the Other Check
The Preachers by James Morris
November 1, 1973: A Spirited Exchange (letter)
May 3, 1973: Greetings from Far Away
Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead by Allen Spraggett, by William V. Rauscher
ESP and Hypnosis by Susy Smith
July 10, 1969: Inventions (letter)
September 22, 1966: Was He Peeking? (cont'd) (letter)
July 28, 1966: Was He Peeking? (letter)
May 26, 1966: Funny Coincidence
ESP, A Scientific Evaluation by C.E.M. Hansel
Books by Martin Gardner
Are Universes Thicker than Blackberries?: DisCourses on Godel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscience (2003)
Did Adam & Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy & Other Dubious Subjects (2000)
From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr.: On Science, Literature, and Religion (2000)
Gardner's Whys & Wherefores (1999)
Visitors from Oz: The Wild Adventures of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, and the Tin Woodman in the United States (1998)
Relativity Simply Explained (1997)
The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications (1997)
The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Play (1996)
The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995 (1996)
Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher (1996)
Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery (1995)
The Flight of Peter Fromm: A Novel (1994)
The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy: The Rise and Fall of Christian Science (1993)
On the Wild Side (1992)
Fractal Music, Hypercards and More--: Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American Magazine (1992)
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings (1990)
Mathematical Carnival: From Penny Puzzles, Card Shuffles, and Tricks of Lightning Calculators to Roller Coaster Rides Into the Fourth Dimension (1989)
Gardner's Whys & Wherefores (1989)
Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers (1989)
Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles & Games: With a New Afterword (1988)
Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments (1988)
The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher (1988)
Riddles of the Sphinx, and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (1987)
The No-Sided Professor, and Other Tales of Fantasy, Humor, Mystery, and Philosophy (1987)
Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments (1986)
The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (1985)
Puzzles from Other Worlds: Fantastical Brainteasers from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (1984)
Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing (1984)
Science, Good, Bad, and Bogus (1983)
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener (1983)
Martin Gardner's Sixth Book of Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American (1983)
Logic Machines and Diagrams (1983)
Order and Surprise (1983)
Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements (1983)
Logic Machines and Diagrams (1982)
Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight (1982)
Science--Good, Bad and Bogus (1981)
Mathematical Circus: More Games, Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Other Mathematical Entertainments from Scientific American (1979)
The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds (1979)
Aha! Aha! Insight (1978)
Mathematical Carnival: A New Round-Up of Tantalizers and Puzzles from Scientific American (1977)
Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions & Other Mathematical Sleight-Of-Mind from Scientific American (1977)
The Relativity Explosion (1976)
The Incredible Dr. Matrix (1976)
Mathematical Carnival: From Penny Puzzles, Card Shuffles and Tricks of Lightning Calculators to Roller Coaster Rides Into the Fourth Dimension (1975)
The Flight of Peter Fromm (1973)
Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American (1971)
Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from "Scientific American" (1969)