Over a period of 24 years (January 1957 – December 1980),
Martin Gardner
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wrote 288 consecutive monthly "Mathematical Games" columns for ''
Scientific American
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'' magazine. During the next years, through June 1986, Gardner wrote 9 more columns, bringing his total to 297, as other authors wrote most of the "Mathematical Games" columns. The table below lists Gardner's columns.
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to the cover.
Other articles by Gardner
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article in December 1956 was in all but name the first article in the series of ''Mathematical Games'' columns and led directly to the series which began the following month.Book review of Martin Gardner's ''Undiluted Hocus-Pocus''
by Teller, The New York Times, January 3, 2014 These five articles are listed below.
References
External links
''A Quarter Century of Recreational Mathematics'', by Martin Gardnerpreserved at the
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A subject index for the fifteen books of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columnsThe Top 10 Martin Gardner ''Scientific American'' Articles
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Columns (periodical)
Recreational mathematics
Mathematics-related lists
Mathematical Games columns