Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination. Martin Gardner: A Remembrance The worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005. To those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. Den Hartog in engineering, Martin's advice and editorial suggestions in the formative 1950s helped to define the Dover publishing program and give it the point of view which -- despite many changes, new directions, and the consequences of evolution -- continues to be operative today. In the Author's Own Words:
"Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs." "A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" -- Martin Gardner

Introduction
1. Ridiculous Riddles
2. Handies
3. Fun with Palindromes
4. The Lost Star
5. Find the Hidden Animals
6. Tricky Questions
7. The Five Airy Creatures
8. The Maze of the Minotaur
9. The Dime-and-Penny Switcheroo
10. A Dozen Droodles for Nimble Noodles
11. Tantalizing Toothpick Teasers
12. Read the Thriftigrams
13. More Tricky Questions
14. Mr. Bushyhead's Problem
15. Sneaky Arithmetic
16. The Careless Sign Painter
17. The Undecidables
18. Sally's Silly Walk
19. Still More Tricky Questions
20. Guess The Typitoons
21. The Fish and the Robot
22. The Christmas-Star Puzzle
23. The Boring Bookworm
24. The Triangular Turkey
25. Find the Best Words
26. Zoo-lulus
27. Unscramble the Beast
28. Solve the Animal Equations
29. The Undecidable Stairway
30. More Sneaky Arithmetic
31. How Clever are You?
32. Folding-Money Fun
33. "Knock, Knock ... Who's There?"
34. Word Bowling
35. The Great Bracelet Mystery
36. And Still More Tricky Questions
37. A Pair of Eye Twiddlers
38. The Puzzling Barbershop Sign
39. The Amazing Mr. Mazo
40. Mother Hubbard's Cupboard
41. Solve the Bird Equations
42. The Last Tricky Questions
43. The Concealed Proverb
44. The Dime-and-Nickel Switcheroo
45. Mrs. Windbag's Gift
46. More Eye Twiddlers
47. Shake Out the Cherry
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