Stories by Martin Gardner

Game theory is applied (for a change) to games

A mixed bag of logical and illogical problems to solve

Problems that are built on the knight's move in chess

Double acrostics, stylized Victorian ancestors of today's crossword puzzle

In which a computer prints out mammoth polygonal factorials

Of sprouts and Brussels sprouts, games with a topological flavor

The polyhex and the polyabolo, polygonal jigsaw puzzle pieces

Cube-root extraction and the calendar trick, or how to cheat in mathematics

The amazing feats of professional mental calculators, and some tricks of the trade

An array of problems that can be solved with elementary mathematical techniques

Mathematical strategies for two-person contests

It seems intuitively plausible that it can, but the concept creates a variety of paradoxes. For example, a time-reversed galaxy would be invisible to us because light would flow into it instead of out

Dr. Matrix delivers a talk on acrostics

The multiple charms of Pascal's triangle

Is it possible to visualize a four-dimensional figure?

Can the shuffling of cards (and other apparently random events) be reversed?

The problem of Mrs. Perkins' quilt, and answers to last month's puzzles

Puzzles that can be solved by reasoning based on elementary physical principles

Freud's friend Wilhelm Fliess and his theory of male and female life cycles

The persistence (and futility) of efforts to trisect the angle

"How to cook a puzzle, or mathematical one-uppery"

The eerie mathematical art of Maurits C.Escher

The hierarchy of infinities and the problems it spawns

Recreational numismatics, or a purse of coin puzzles