Martin Gardner

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1) Codes, ciphers, and secret writing

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Experiment with cryptography - the science of secret writing. Cipher and decipher codes: transposition and polyalphabetical ciphers, famous codes, typewriter and telephone codes, codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks...even invisible writing and sending messages through outer space. Hours of intrigue and challenge. 45 diagrams.

2) The annotated Alice

Author

Carroll, Lewis

Publisher

Wings Books

Pub. Date

1993

3) On the wild side

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Pub. Date

1992

4) Science--good, bad and bogus

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Pub. Date

c1981

5) Are universes thicker than blackberries?: discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

W.W. Norton

Pub. Date

c2003

6) When you were a tadpole and I was a fish: and other speculations about this and that

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Hill and Wang

Pub. Date

2009

7) How not to test a psychic: ten years of remarkable experiments with renowned clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Pub. Date

1989

8) The colossal book of mathematics: classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Norton

Pub. Date

2001

9) The healing revelations of Mary Baker Eddy: the rise and fall of Christian Science

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Pub. Date

1993

10) The new ambidextrous universe: symmetry and asymmetry from mirror reflections to superstrings

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

W.H. Freeman

Pub. Date

c1990

11) The Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Pub. Date

1959

12) The New Age: notes of a fringe watcher

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Prometheus Books

Pub. Date

c1988

13) Mathematical circus: more games, puzzles, paradoxes, and other mathematical entertainments from Scientific American ; with thoughts from readers, afterthoughts from the author, and 105 drawings &...

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

1979

14) Science magic: Martin Gardner's tricks & puzzles

Author

Gardner, Martin

Publisher

Sterling publishing

Pub. Date

c1997

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A collection of tricks, stunts, and puzzles that explore the properties of water, air, friction, heat, motion, light, and more.

15) New mathematical diversions

Author

Gardner, Martin

Series

Gardner Martin 1914- Martin Gardner's new mathematical diversions from Scientific American

Publisher

Washington, D.C. : Mathematical Association of America

Pub. Date

1995

16) The annotated Alice: Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass

Author

Carroll, Lewis

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ATL: A Cuppa and a Good Book

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"Celebrating the 150th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland comes this richly illustrated and expanded collector's edition of Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. First appearing in 1960, The Annotated Alice became an instant classic by, among other things, decoding the wordplay and mathematical riddles embedded within Lewis Carroll's masterpiece. As a result, Martin Gardner's groundbreaking work went on to sell over a million copies,...

17) The Annotated Night before Christmas: a collection of sequels, parodies, and imitations of Clement Moore's immortal ballad about Santa Claus

18) 536 puzzles & curious problems

Author

Dudeney, Henry Ernest

Publisher

Scribner

Pub. Date

[1967]

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Martin Gardner

1) Codes, ciphers, and secret writing

2) The annotated Alice

3) On the wild side

4) Science--good, bad and bogus

5) Are universes thicker than blackberries?: discourses on Gödel, magic hexagrams, Little Red Riding Hood, and other mathematical and pseudoscientific topics

6) When you were a tadpole and I was a fish: and other speculations about this and that

7) How not to test a psychic: ten years of remarkable experiments with renowned clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek

8) The colossal book of mathematics: classic puzzles, paradoxes, and problems : number theory, algebra, geometry, probability, topology, game theory, infinity, and other topics of recreational mathematics

9) The healing revelations of Mary Baker Eddy: the rise and fall of Christian Science

10) The new ambidextrous universe: symmetry and asymmetry from mirror reflections to superstrings

11) The Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions

12) The New Age: notes of a fringe watcher

13) Mathematical circus: more games, puzzles, paradoxes, and other mathematical entertainments from Scientific American ; with thoughts from readers, afterthoughts from the author, and 105 drawings &...

14) Science magic: Martin Gardner's tricks & puzzles

15) New mathematical diversions

16) The annotated Alice: Alice's adventures in Wonderland & Through the looking-glass

17) The Annotated Night before Christmas: a collection of sequels, parodies, and imitations of Clement Moore's immortal ballad about Santa Claus

18) 536 puzzles & curious problems