Martin Gardner: 21 de Octubre de 1914 – 22 de Mayo 2010

Martin Gardner
21 de Octubre de 1914 – 22 de Mayo 2010

Obra

• 1952 In the Name of Science G. P. Putnam's Sons
• 1956 Mathematics, Magic and Mystery Dover; ISBN 0-486-20335-2
• 1957 Science Puzzlers The Viking Press, Scholastic Book Services
• 1957 Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science Dover; ISBN 0-486-20394-8
• 1957 Great Essays in Science (editor); Prometheus Books ISBN 0-87975-853-8
• 1957 The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was. (with Russel B. Nye) Michigan State University Press.
  
• 1958 Logic Machines and Diagrams. McGraw-Hill New York
• 1960 The Annotated Alice New York: Bramhall House Clarkson Potter.
• 1962 The Annotated Snark New York: Simon & Schuster.
• 1962 Relativity for the Million New York: MacMillan Company
• 1964 The Ambidextrous Universe: Mirror Asymmetry and Time-Reversed Worlds
  
• 1965 The Annotated Ancient Mariner New York: Clarkson Potter, Reprint. Prometheus. ISBN 1-59102-125-1
• 1967 Annotated Casey at the Bat: A Collection of Ballads about the Mighty Casey New York: Clarkson Potter.
• 1973 The Flight of Peter Fromm, Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc. Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-911-9
• 1975 Mathematical Carnival: A New Round-up of Tantalizers and Puzzles from "Scientific American", Knopf Publishing Group; ISBN 0-394-49406-7
• 1976 The Incredible Dr. Matrix, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons; ISBN 0-684-14669-X
• 1978 Aha! Insight, W.H. Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1017-X
• 1981 Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-573-3
• 1981 Entertaining Science Experiments With Everyday Objects; Dover; ISBN 0-486-24201-3
• 1982 Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight (Tools for Transformation); W.H. Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1361-6
• 1983 The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener, 1999 ISBN 0-312-20682-8
• 1983 Order and Surprise, Prometheus Books, ISBN 0-879-75219-X
• 1984 Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Test Your Code Breaking Skills), Dover; ISBN 0-486-24761-9
• 1985 Magic Numbers of Dr Matrix, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-282-3
• 1986 Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles, Dover; ISBN 0-486-25211-6
• 1987 The No-Sided Professor and other tales of fantasy, humor, mystery, and philosophy, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-390-0
• 1987 The Annotated Innocence of Father Brown Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-217748-6 (Notes by Gardner, on G. K. Chesterton’s stories).
• 1987 Riddles of the Sphinx Mathematical Association of American, ISBN 0-88385-632-8
• 1987 Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments, W.H. Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-1925-8
• 1988 Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers, Dover; ISBN 0-486-25637-5
• 1988 New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-432-X
  
• 1990 More Annotated Alice, Random House; ISBN 0-394-58571-2
• 1991 The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions, University Of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-28256-2
• 1991 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
• 1991 Fractal Music, Hypercards and More; W. H. Freeman
• 1992 On the Wild Side, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-713-2 (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns)
• 1993 The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy, Prometheus Books,
• 1994 My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles, Dover; ISBN 0-486-28152-3
• 1995 Classic Brainteasers, Sterling Publishing; ISBN 0-8069-1261-8
• 1995 Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery, Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-955-0
• 1996 Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher, Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-096-7
• 1997 The Night Is Large : Collected Essays, 1938-1995, St. Martin's Griffin; ISBN 0-312-16949-3
• 1998 Calculus Made Easy, St. Martin's Press; Revised edition ISBN 0-312-18548-0 (Revisions and additions to the 1910 calculus textbook by Silvanus P. Thompson.)
• 1998 Martin Gardner's Table Magic, Dover; ISBN 0-486-40403-X
• 1998 Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner, Dover; ISBN 0486400891 - This book, edited by David A. Klamer, was the tribute of the mathematical community to Gardner when he retired from writing his Scientific American column in 1981. (The Dover edition is a reprint of the original, titled The Mathematical Gardner, published by Wadsworth.) Discreetly assembled for the occasion, the stature of the mathematicians submitting papers is a testament to Gardner's importance.
• 1999 Gardner's Whys & Wherefores Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-744-9
• 1999 The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition ; W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04847-0
• 1999 The Annotated Thursday: G. K. Chesterton's Masterpiece, the Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton, Edited by Martin Gardner.
• 2000 From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley, Jr. : On Science, Literature, and Religion, Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-852-6
• 2000 The Annotated Wizard of Oz, New York: W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-04992-2 (introduction)
• 2001 A Gardner's Workout: Training the Mind and Entertaining the Spirit ISBN 1-56881-120-9
• 2001 Mathematical Puzzle Tales; Mathematical Association of America ISBN 0-88385-533-X (collection of articles from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
• 2001 Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience, W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-32238-6 (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns)
• 2002 Martin Gardner's Favorite Poetic Parodies Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-57392-925-5
• 2003 Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?: Discourses on Gödel, Magic Hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and Other Mathematical and Pseudoscientific Topics, ISBN 0-393-05742-9 (collection of "Notes of a Fringe Watcher" columns and others)
• 2004 Smart Science Tricks, Sterling; ISBN 1-4027-0910-2
• 2007 The Jinn from Hyperspace: And Other Scribblings—both Serious and Whimsical, Prometheus Books; ISBN 1-5910-2565-6
• 2008 Bamboozlers: The Book of Bankable Bar Betchas, Brain Bogglers, Belly Busters & Bewitchery by Diamond Jim Tyler, Diamond Jim Productions; ISBN 0-967-60181-9 (introduction)
• 2009 When You Were a Tadpole and I was a Fish and other Speculations about This and That, Hill and Wang; ISBN 0-8090-8737-2

Collected Scientific American columns

Reunen los artículos que Gardner escribió para Scientific American entre 1956 y 1981

• Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First Scientific American Book of Puzzles and Games 1959; University of Chicago Press 1988 ISBN 0-226-28254-6
• The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions 1961; University of Chicago Press 1987; ISBN 0-226-28253-8
• Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American 1966; Simon and Schuster; reprinted by Mathematical Association of America 1995
• Numerology of Dr. Matrix 1967; Prometheus Books; ISBN 0-87975-281-5 / ISBN 0-87975-282-3
• Unexpected Hangings, and Other Mathematical Diversions Simon & Schuster 1968; ISBN 0-671-20073-9
• The Sixth Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions Simon & Schuster 1971
• Mathematical Carnival Vintage 1975; Mathematical Association of America
• Mathematical Magic Show Vintage 1977; Mathematical Association of America
• Mathematical Circus Vintage 1979; Mathematical Association of America
• Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements 1983; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1589-9
• Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments 1986; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1799-9
• Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments 1988; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1925-8
• Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers 1989; W. H. Freeman & Co. ISBN 0-7167-1987-8; reprinted by Mathematical Association of America
• Fractal Music, Hypercards and More 1991; W. H. Freeman
• Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and other Mathematical Mystifications 1997; Springer Verlag; ISBN 0-387-94929-1
• The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems 2001; W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-02023-1 (a "best of" collection)
• Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games 2005; Mathematical Association of America; ISBN 0-88385-545-3 (CD-ROM of all fifteen books above, encompassing all articles in the column)
• The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems 2006; W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN 0-393-06114-0

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