COLUMNAS DE MARTIN GARDNER

MON YR Title n
Mar 52 Logic Machines 1
Dec 56 Flexagons 2
Jan 57 A new kind of magic square with remarkable properties 1
An assortment of maddening puzzles. Warning: The solutions will not be given until
Feb 57 2
March
Mar 57 Some old and new versions of tick-tack-toe, plus the answers to last month's puzzles 3
Apr 57 Paradoxes dealing with birthdays, playing cards, coins, crows and red-haired typists 4
May 57 About the remarkable similarity between the Icosian Game and the Tower of Hanoi 5
Curious figures descended from the möbius band, which has only one side and one
Jun 57 6
edge
Jul 57 Concerning the game of Hex, which can be played on the tiles of the bathroom floor 7
Aug 57 The life and work of Sam Loyd, a mighty inventor of puzzles 8
Sep 57 Concerning various tricks with a mathematical message 9
Oct 57 How to remember numbers by mnemonic devices such as cufflinks and red zebras 10
Nov 57 Nine titillating puzzles, the answers to which will be given next month 11
Dec 57 More about complex dominoes, plus the answers to last month's puzzles 12
Jan 58 A collection of tantalizing fallacies of mathematics 13
Feb 58 The game of Nim and its mathematical analysis 14
Mar 58 About left- and right-handedness, mirror images and kindred matters 15
Apr 58 The celebrated puzzle of five sailors, a monkey, and a pile of coconuts 16
May 58 About tetraflexagons and tetraflexagation 17
Jun 58 About Henry Ernest Dudney, a brilliant creator of puzzles 18
Jul 58 Some diverting tricks which involve the concept of numerical congruence 19
Aug 58 A third collection of brain-teasers 20
Sep 58 A game in which standard pieces composed of cubes are assembled into larger forms 21
Oct 58 Four mathematical diversions involving concepts of topology 22
Nov 58 How rectangles, including squares, can be divided into squares of unequal size 23
Dec 58 Diversions which involve the five Platonic solids 24
Jan 59 About mazes and how they may be traversed 25
Feb 59 Brainteasers that involve formal logic 26
Mar 59 Concerning the properties of various magic squares 27
Apr 59 The mathematical diversions of a fictitious carnival man 28
May 59 Another collection of brain-teasers 29
Jun 59 An inductive card game, and the answers to the brain-teasers in the May issue 30
Jul 59 About Origami, the Japanese art of folding objects out of paper 31
Aug 59 About phi, an irrational number that had some remarkable geometrical expressions 32
Sep 59 Concerning mechanical puzzles, and how an enthusiast has collected 2,000 of them 33
Oct 59 Problems involving questions of probability and ambiguity 34
How three modern mathematicians disproved a celebrated conjecture of Leonhard
Nov 59 35
Euler
Dec 59 Diversions that clarify group theory, particularly by the weaving of braids 36
Jan 60 A fanciful dialog about wonders of Numerology 37
Feb 60 A fifth collection of brain-teasers 38
Mar 60 The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll 39
Apr 60 About Mathematical games that are played on boards 40
May 60 Reflections on the packing of spheres 41
Jun 60 Recreations involving folding and cutting paper 42
Jul 60 Incidental information about the extraordinary number Pi 43
Aug 60 An imaginary dialog on mathemagic: tricks based on mathematical principles 44
Sep 60 The celebrated four-color map problem of topology 45
Oct 60 A new collection of brain-teasers 46
More about the shapes that can be made with complex dominoes (poly and
Nov 60 47
pentominoes)
Dec 60 Some recreations involving the binary number system 48
Jan 61 Dr Matrix, numerologist extraordinary 49
Feb 61 Diversions that involve one of the classic conic sections: the ellipse 50
Mar 61 How to play dominoes in two and three dimensions 51
Apr 61 Concerning the diversions in a new book on geometry (Coxeter: Intro to Geometry) 52
May 61 MG meets the legendary Bertrand Apollinax 53
Jun 61 A new collection of brain-teasers 54
Jul 61 Some diverting mathematical board games 55
Aug 61 Some entertainments that involve the calculus of finite differences 56
Sep 61 Surfaces with edges linked in the same way as a well-known design (Borromean rings) 57
Oct 61 Diversions that involve the mathematical constant e 58
Nov 61 Where in geometrical figures are dissected to make other figures 59
Dec 61 On the theory of probability and the practice of gambling 60
Jan 62 An adventure in hyperspace at the church of the Fourth Dimension 61
Feb 62 A clutch of diverting problems, and the answers to those of last month 62
Mar 62 How to build a game-learning machine and teach it to play and win 63
Apr 62 About three types of spirals and how to construct them 64
May 62 Symmetry and asymmetry and the strange world of upside down art 65
Jun 62 The (board) game of solitaire and some variations and transformations 66
Jul 62 Fiction about life in two dimensions (Flatland) 67
Aug 62 A variety of diverting tricks collected at a fictitious convention of magicians 68
Sep 62 Tests that show whether a large number can be divided by a number from 2 to 12 69
Oct 62 A collection of puzzles involving numbers, logic, and probability 70
Nov 62 Some puzzles based on checker boards 71
Dec 62 Some tricks and manipulations from the ancient lore of string play 72
Jan 63 The author pays his annual visit to Dr. Matrix, the numerologist 73
Feb 63 Curves of constant width, one of which makes it possible to drill square holes 74
Mar 63 A new paradox, and variations on it, about a man condemned to be hanged 75
Apr 63 A bit of foolishness for April Fools' Day 76
May 63 On rep-tiles polygons that can make larger and smaller copies of themselves 77
Jun 63 A discussion of helical structures from corkscrews to DNA molecules 78
Jul 63 Topological diversions, including a bottle with no inside or outside 79
Aug 63 Permutations and paradoxes in combinatorial math 80
Sep 63 How to solve puzzles by graphing the rebounds of a bouncing ball 81
Oct 63 About two new and two old board games 82
Nov 63 A mixed bag of problems, and answers to last month's board-game questions 83
Dec 63 How to use the odd-even check for tricks and problem solving 84
Jan 64 Dr Matrix (numerologist) in his annual performance 85
Feb 64 The hypnotic fascination of sliding block puzzles 86
Mar 64 The remarkable lore of prime numbers 87
Apr 64 Various problems based on planar graphs, or sets of vertices connected by edges 88
May 64 The tyranny of 10 over thrown with the ternary number system 89
Jun 64 Short problems and more on prime numbers 90
Jul 64 Curious properties of a cycloid curve 91
Aug 64 Magic tricks based on mathematical principles 92
Sep 64 Puns, palindromes and other word games with math spirit 93
Oct 64 Simple proofs of the Pythagorean theorem, and sundry other matters 94
Nov 64 Some paradoxes and puzzles involving infinite series and the concept of limit 95
Dec 64 On polyiamonds: shapes that are made out of equilateral triangles 96
Jan 65 Dr Matrix on symmetries and reversals 97
Tetrahedrons in nature and architecture, and puzzles involving this simplest
Feb 65 98
polyhedron
Mar 65 A new group of short problems and answers to last month's questions 99
Apr 65 The infinite regress in philosophy, literature and mathematical proof 100
May 65 The lattice of integers considered as an orchard or a billiard table 101
Jun 65 Diversions from Mr O'Gara/ the postman 102
Jul 65 On the relation between mathematics and the ordered patterns of Op art 103
Aug 65 Communication with intelligent organisms on other worlds 104
Sep 65 The superellipse: a curve that lies between the ellipse and the rectangle 105
Oct 65 Pentolninoes and polyominoes: five games and a sampling of problems 106
Nov 65 A selection of elementary word and number problems 107
Dec 65 Magic stars, graphs and polyhedrons, and answers to last month's problems 108
Jan 66 Dr Matrix, neo-Freudian psychonumerologist 109
Feb 66 Recreational numismatics or a purse of coin purses 110
Mar 66 The hierarchy of infinities and the problems it spawns 111
Apr 66 The eerie mathematical art of Escher 112
May 66 How to cook a puzzle, or mathematical one-uppery 113
Jun 66 The persistence (and futility) of efforts to trisect the angle 114
Jul 66 Freud's friend Wilhelm Fliess and his theory of male and female life cycles 115
Aug 66 Puzzles that can be solved by reasoning based on elementary physical principles 116
Sep 66 The problem of Mrs. Perkins' quilt, and answers to last month's puzzles 117
Oct 66 Can the shuffling of cards (and other apparently random events) be reversed 118
Nov 66 Is it possible to visualize a four dimensional figure? 119
Dec 66 The multiple charms of Pascal's triangle 120
Jan 67 Can time go backwards? 3
Jan 67 Dr Matrix delivers a talk on acrostics 121
Feb 67 Mathematical strategies for two person contests 122
Mar 67 An array of problems that can be solved with elementary mathematical techniques 123
Apr 67 Amazing feats of professional mental calculators and some tricks of the trade 124
May 67 Cube-root extraction and the calendar trick, or how to cheat in mathematics 125
Jun 67 The polyhex and the polyabolo/polygonal jigsaw puzzle pieces 126
Jul 67 Of sprouts and brussel sprouts, games with a topological flavor 127
Aug 67 In which a computer prints out mammoth polygonal factorials 128
Sep 67 Double acrostics, stylized victorian ancestors or today's crossword puzzle 129
Oct 67 Problems that are built on the knight's tour in chess 130
Nov 67 A mixed bag of logical and illogical problems (including Langford's Problem!) 131
Dec 67 Game theory is applied (for a change) to games 132
Jan 68 The beauties of the square, as explained by Dr Matrix to rehabilitate the hippie 133
Feb 68 Combinatorial problems involving tree graphs and forests of trees 134
Mar 68 Perfect numbers, amicable pairs, Mersenne primes 135
Apr 68 Puzzles and tricks with a one dollar bill 136
May 68 Circles and spheres, and how they kiss and pack 137
Jun 68 Combinatorial possibilities on a pack of shuffled cards 138
Jul 68 On the meaning of randomness and some ways of achieving it 139
Aug 68 Array of puzzles and tricks, with a few traps for the unwary 140
Sep 68 Counting systems and the relationship between numbers and the real world 141
Oct 68 MacMahon's color triangles and the joys of fitting them together 142
Nov 68 On the ancient lore of die and the odds against making a point 143
Dec 68 The world of the möbius strip: endless, edgeless and one-sided 144
Jan 69 Dr Matrix gives his explanation of why Nixon was elected President 145
Feb 69 Boolean algebra, Venn diagrams and the propositional calculus 146
Mar 69 The multiple fascinations of the Fibonacci sequence 147
Apr 69 Octet of problems emphasizing gamesmanship, logic, and probability 148
May 69 Random walk and its gambling equivalent 149
Jun 69 Random walks by semidrunk bugs and others on the square and on the cube 150
Jul 69 Tricks, games, and puzzles that employ matches as counters and line segments 151
Aug 69 Simplicity as scientific concept — Does nature keep her accounts on a thumbnail? 152
Sep 69 Geometric construction with a compass and a straight edge 153
Oct 69 Numeranalysis by Dr Matrix of the lunar flight of Apollo 11 154
Nov 69 A new pencil-and-paper game based on inductive reasoning 155
Dec 69 A hand full of combinatorial problems bases on dominoes 156
Jan 70 The abacus: primitive but effective digital computer 157
Feb 70 Nine new puzzles to solve, some answers and addenda 158
Mar 70 Cyclic numbers and their properties and answers to last month's problems 159
Apr 70 Mathematical curiosities embedded in the solar system 160
May 70 Of optical illusions, from figures that are undecidable to hot dogs that float 161
Jun 70 Elegant triangle theorems not to be found in Euclid 162
Jul 70 Diophantine analysis and the problem of Fermat's legendary last theorem 163
Aug 70 Backward run numbers, letters, words and sentences until boggles the mind 164
Sep 70 On cyclical curves generated by wheels that roll along wheels 165
Oct 70 The fantastic combinations of John Conway's new solitaire game Life 166
Nov 70 A new collection of short problems and the answers to some of Life's 167
Dec 70 Paradox of non-transitive dice and the elusive principle of indifference 168
Jan 71 Lessons from Dr Matrix in chess and numerology 169
Feb 71 On cellular automata, self-reproduction, the Garden of Eden and the game of life 170
Mar 71 Orders of infinity, topological nature of dimension and supertask 171
Apr 71 Geometric fallacies: hidden errors pave the road to absurd conclusions 172
May 71 Combinatorial richness of folding a piece of paper 173
Jun 71 The Turning game and the question it presents: Can a computer think? 174
Jul 71 Quickie problems: not hard, but look out for the curves 175
Aug 71 Tick-tack-toe and its complications, and answers to the quickie problems 176
Sep 71 The plaiting of Plato's polyhedrons and the asymmetrical yin-yang-lee 177
Oct 71 New puzzles from the game of Halma, the noble ancestor of Chinese Checkers 178
Nov 71 Advertising premiums to beguile mind; classics by Sam Loyd, master puzzle poser 179
Dec 71 Further encounters with touching cubes, and the paradoxes of Zeno as supertasks 180
Jan 72 How to triumph at nim by playing safe, and Conway's game hackenbush 181
Feb 72 Dr Matrix poses heteroliteral puzzles while peddling perpetual motion 182
Mar 72 Graceful graphs of Solomon Golomb, or how to number a graph parsimoniously 183
Apr 72 Topological problem with fresh twist, and eight other new recreational puzzles 184
May 72 Challenging chess tasks for puzzle buffs and answers to recreational problems 185
Jun 72 A miscellany of transcendental problems: Simple to state but not all easy to solve 186
Jul 72 Amazing mathematical card tricks that do not require prestidigitation 187
Aug 72 The curious properties of the gray code and how it can be used to solve puzzles 188
Sep 72 Pleasurable problems with polycubes and winning strategy for slither 189
Oct 72 Why the long arm of coincidence is usually not as long as it seems 190
Nov 72 On the practical uses and bizarre abuses of Sir Francis Bacon's bilateral cipher 191
Dec 72 Knotty problems with a two-hole torus, and solutions for last month's ciphers 192
Jan 73 Sim, Chomp and Race Track: new games for the intellect (and not for Lady Luck) 193
Feb 73 Up-and-down elevator games and Piet Hein's mechanical puzzles 194
Mar 73 The calculating rods of John Napier, the eccentric father of logarithms 195
Apr 73 How to turn a chessboard into a computer to calculate with negabinary numbers 196
A new miscellany of problems, and encores for Race Track, SIM, Chomp and
May 73 197
Elevators
Jun 73 Plotting the crossing number of graphs, and answers to last month's miscellany 198
Jul 73 Free will revisited, with a mind bending prediction paradox by William Newcomb 199
Aug 73 An astounding self-test of clairvoyance by Dr Matrix 200
Sep 73 Problems on the surface of a sphere offer an entertaining intro to point sets 201
Oct 73 Look-see diagrams that offer visual proof of complex algebraic formulas 202
Nov 73 Fantastic patterns traced by programmed worms 203
Dec 73 On expressing integers as sum of cubes and other unsolved number theory problems 204
Jan 74 The combinatorial basis of the I Ching, the Chinese book of divination and wisdom 205
Feb 74 Cram, cross cram and quadraphage: new games having elusive winning strategies 206
Mar 74 Reflections on Newcomb's problem: a prediction and free-will dilemma 207
Apr 74 Nine challenging problems, some rational and some not 208
May 74 On the contradictions of time travel, and answers to last month's problems 209
Dr Matrix brings his numerological science to bear on the occult powers of the
Jun 74 210
pyramid
Jul 74 On the patterns and unusual properties of figurate numbers 211
Aug 74 On the fanciful history and the creative challenges of the puzzle game of tangrams 212
Sep 74 Tangrams: combinatorial problems and the game possibility of snug tangrams 213
Oct 74 Paradoxical situations that arise from non-transitive relationships 214
Nov 74 Dramatic demonstrations of number theorems with playing cards 215
Dec 74 The arts as combinatorial mathematics, or how to compose like Mozart with dice 216
Jan 75 The curious magic of anamorphic art 217
Feb 75 How the absence of anything leads to thoughts of nothing 218
Mar 75 From rubber ropes to rolling cubes, a miscellany of refreshing problems 219
Apr 75 Six sensational discoveries that somehow or another have escaped public attention 220
May 75 On the remarkable Császár polyhedron and its applications in problem solving 221
Jun 75 Games of strategy for two players: star nim, meander, dodgem and rex 222
Jul 75 On tessellating the plane with convex polygon tiles 223
Aug 75 Polyominoes, polyiamonds and polyhexes more about tiling the plane 224
Sep 75 Dr Matrix finds numerological wonders in the King James Bible 225
Oct 75 Concerning an effort to demonstrate extrasensory perception by machine 226
Nov 75 On map projections (with special reference to some inspired ones) 227
Dec 75 A random assortment of puzzles, together with reader responses to earlier problems 228
Jan 76 A breakthrough in magic squares and the first perfect magic cube 229
Feb 76 Some elegant brick-packing problems, and a new order-7 perfect magic cube 230
Mar 76 On the fabric of inductive logic, and some probability paradoxes 231
Apr 76 Snarks, boojums and other conjectures related to the four-color-map theorem 232
May 76 A few words about everything there was, is and ever will be 233
Jun 76 Catalan numbers: an integer sequence that materializes in unexpected places 234
Jul 76 Fun and serious business with the small electronic calculator 235
Aug 76 Symmetrical arrangement of the stars on the American flag and related matters 236
Sep 76 John Horton Conway's book covers an infinity of games 237
Oct 76 Combinatorial problems, some old, some new and all newly attacked by computer 238
Nov 76 In which DM (Dr. Matrix) is revealed as the guru of PM (Pentagonal Meditation) 239
Dec 76 In which monster curves force redefinition of the word curve 240
Jan 77 Extraordinary nonperiodic tiling that enriches the theory of tiles 241
Feb 77 The flip strip sonnet, the lipogram and other mad modes of wordplay 242
Mar 77 Cornering a queen leads unexpectedly into corners of the theory of numbers 243
Apr 77 The pool table triangle, a limerick paradox and divers other challenges 244
May 77 The jump proof and its similarity to the toppling of a row of dominoes 245
Jun 77 The concept of negative numbers and the difficulty of grasping it 246
Jul 77 Cutting things into equal parts leads into significant areas of mathematics 247
Aug 77 A new kind of cipher that would take millions of years to break 248
Sep 77 On conic sections ruled surfaces and other manifestations of the hyperbola 249
Oct 77 On playing new eleusis, the game that simulates the search for truth 250
Nov 77 In which joining sets of points by lines leads into diverse (and diverting) paths 251
Dec 77 Dr Matrix goes to California to apply punk to rock study 252
The sculpture of Miquel Berrocal can be taken apart like an interlocking mechanical
Jan 78 253
puzzle
Feb 78 Checker jumping, Sichermann dice, and Kruskal's card trick 254
Mar 78 Count dracula, alice, portia, others consider logic twists 255
Apr 78 White and brown music, fractal curves and 1/f fluctuations 256
May 78 The bells, numbers that can count partitions of a set, primes, rhymes 257
Jun 78 A mathematical zoo of astounding critters, imaginary and otherwise 258
Jul 78 On Charles Sanders Pierce, philosopher and gamesman 259
Aug 78 A möbius band has finite thickness, and so it is actually a twisted prism 260
Sep 78 Puzzling over a problem solving matrix, cubes of many colors, and 3d dominoes 261
Puzzles and number theory problems arising from the curious fractions of ancient
Oct 78 262
Egypt
Nov 78 In which a mathematical aesthetic is applied to modern minimal art 263
Dec 78 Is it a superintelligent robot or does Dr Matrix ride again? 264
Jan 79 The diverse pleasures of circles that are tangent to one another 265
Feb 79 About rectangling rectangles, parodying Poe and many another pleasing problem 266
Mar 79 On altering the past, delaying the future and other ways of tampering with time 267
Apr 79 In which players of tick-tack-toe are taught to hunt bigger game 268
May 79 How to be a psychic, even if you are a horse or some other animal 269
Chess problems on a higher plane, including mirror images, rotations and the
Jun 79 270
superqueen
Jul 79 Douglas R Hofstadter's Godel, Escher, Bach 271
Aug 79 The imaginableness of the imaginary numbers 272
Sep 79 In some patterns of numbers or words there may be less than meets the eye 273
Oct 79 Some packing problems that cannot be solved by sitting on the suitcase 274
Nov 79 The random number omega bids fair to hold the mysteries of the universe 275
Dec 79 A pride of problems, including one that is virtually impossible 276
Jan 80 Checkers, a game that can be more interesting than one might think 277
Feb 80 The coloring of unusual maps leads into uncharted territory 278
Graphs that can help cannibals, missionaries, wolves, goats and cabbages get there
Mar 80 279
from here
Apr 80 Fun with eggs: uncooked and mathematical 280
May 80 What unifies dinner guests, strolling schoolgirls and handcuffed prisoners? 281
The capture of the monster: a mathematical group with a ridiculous number of
Jun 80 282
elements
Jul 80 The pleasures of doing science and technology in the planiverse 283
Aug 80 On the fine art of putting players, pills and points into their proper pigeonholes 284
Sep 80 Dr Matrix, like Mr Holmes, comes to an untimely and mysterious end 285
Oct 80 From counting votes to making votes count: the mathematics of elections 286
Nov 80 Taxicab geometry offers a free ride to a non-Euclidean locale 287
Dec 80 Patterns in primes are a clue to the strong law of small numbers 288
Jan 81 An anagrammatic title introduces a new contributor to this column 1
Feb 81 Gauss's congruence theory was mod as early as 1801 289
Mar 81 The Magic Cube's cubies are twiddled by cubists and solved by cubemeisters 2
Apr 81 How Lavina finds a room on University Avenue, and other geometric problems 290
May 81 A coffeehouse conversation on the Turing test to determine if a machine can think 3
Jun 81 The inspired geometrical symmetries of Scott Kim 291
Jul 81 Pitfalls of the uncertainty principle and paradoxes of quantum mechanics 4
Aug 81 The abstract parabola fits the concrete world 292
Sep 81 How might analogy, the core of human thinking, be understood by computers? 5
Oct 81 Euclid's parallel postulate and its modern offspring 293
Nov 81 Strange attractors: mathematical patterns delicately poised between order and chaos 6
Dec 81 The Laffer curve and other laughs in current economics 294
Jan 82 A self-referential column about last January's column about self-reference 7
Feb 82 About two kinds of inquiry: National Enquirer and The Skeptical Inquirer 8
Mar 82 Is the genetic code an arbitrary one, or would another code work as well? 9
Apr 82 The music of Frederic Chopin: startling aural patterns that also startle the eye 10
May 82 Number numbness, or why innumeracy may be just as dangerous as illiteracy 11
Jun 82 About Nomic: a heroic game that explores the reflexivity of the law 12
Jul 82 Beyond Rubik's Cube: spheres, pyramids, dodecahedrons and God knows what else 13
Aug 82 Undercut, Flaunt, Hruska, behavioral evolution and other games of strategy 14
Sep 82 Can inspiration be mechanized? 15
Oct 82 Variations on a theme as the essence of imagination 16
Nov 82 Default assumptions and their effects on writing and thinking 17
Dec 82 Sense makes more sense than nonsense, but nonsense may still have its purposes 18
Jan 83 Virus-like sentences and self-replicating structures 19
Feb 83 The pleasures of Lisp: the chosen language of artificial intelligence 20
Mar 83 Tripping the light recursive in Lisp: the language of artificial intelligence 21
Apr 83 In which the discourse on the language Lisp concludes with a gargantuan Italian feast 22
May 83 Computer tournaments of the Prisoner's Dilemma suggest how cooperation evolves 23
Jun 83 The calculus of cooperation is tested through a lottery 24
Jul 83 Parquet deformations: patterns of tiles that shift gradually in one dimension 25
Aug 83 Tasks you cannot help finishing no matter how hard you try to block finishing them 295
Sep 83 The topology of knots, plus the results of Hofstadter's Luring Lottery 296
Oct 83 Introducing a department concerned with the pleasures of computation 1
Nov 83 A progress report on the fine art of turning literature into drivel 2
On the finite-state machine, a minimal model of mousetraps, ribosomes and the human
Dec 83 3
soul
Jan 84 On the ups and downs of hailstone numbers 4
Feb 84 Turning turtle gives one a view of geometry from the inside out 5
Mar 84 The cellular automaton offers a model of the world and a world unto itself 6
Apr 84 How to handle numbers with thousands of digits, and why one might want to 1
May 84 In the game called Core War hostile programs engage in a battle of bits 1
Jun 84 On the spaghetti computer and other analog gadgets for problem solving 2
Jul 84 A program that plays checkers can often stay one jump ahead 3
Aug 84 A computer trap for the busy beaver, the hardest working Turing machine 4
Sep 84 The failings of a digital eye suggest there can be no insight without insight 5
A computational garden sprouting anagrams, pangrams and a few weeds (Yank D
Oct 84 6
Weed)
Nov 84 Yin and Yang: recursion and iteration, the Tower of Hanoi and the Chinese rings 7
Dec 84 Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet WA-TOR 8
Jan 85 Artificial Insanity: when a schizophrenic program meets a computer analyst 9
An expert system outperforms mere mortals as it conquers the feared Dungeons of
Feb 85 10
Doom
Mar 85 A Core War bestiary of viruses, worms and other threats to computer memories 11
Apr 85 Five easy pieces for a do loop and a random number generator 12
Building computers in one dimension sheds light on irreducibly complicated
May 85 13
phenomena
Jun 85 Analog gadgets that solve a diversity of problem and raise an array of questions 14
Jul 85 A circuitous odyssey from Robotropolis to the electronic gates of Silicon Valley 15
Aug 85 A computer microscope zooms in for a look at the most complex object in mathematics 16
Sep 85 At Bell Labs work is play and terminal diseases are benign 17
Oct 85 Bill's baffling burrs, Coffin's cornucopia, Engel's enigma 18
Exploring genetic algorithms in a primordial computer sea full of flibs (finite living
Nov 85 19
blobs)
Dec 85 The search for an invisible ruler that will help radio astronomers to measure the earth 20
Jan 86 How close encounters with star clusters are achieved with a computer telescope 21
Feb 86 The king (a chess program) is dead, long live the king (a chess machine) 22
Mar 86 How a pair of dull-witted programs can look like geniuses on IQ tests 23
Apr 86 A program for rotating hypercubes induces four-dimensional dementia 24
May 86 Branching phylogenies of the Palaeozoic and the fortunes of English family names 25
Jun 86 Casting a net on a checkerboard and other puzzles of the forest 297
Jul 86 A sublime flight of fancy over a deserted data base 26
Aug 86 Digital prestidigitation: the fine art of magic and illusion by computer 27
Sep 86 Wallpaper for the mind: computer images that are almost, but not quite repetitive 28
Oct 86 The compleat computer caricaturist and a whimsical tour of face space 29
Nov 86 Star Trek emerges from the underground to a place in the home-computer arcade 30
Dec 86 Of fractal mountains, graftal plants and other computer graphics at Pixar 31
Jan 87 A program called MICE nibbles its way to victory at the first Core War tournament 32
Feb 87 The game Life acquires some successors in three dimensions 33
Braitenberg memoirs: vehicles for probing behavior roam a dark plain marked by
Mar 87 34
lights
Apr 87 The sound of computing is music to the ears of some 35
May 87 Of bulls, bears and programs in the pit 36
Jun 87 Algopuzzles: wherein trains of thought follow algorithmic tracks to solutions 37
Jul 87 Probing the strange attractions of chaos 38
Aug 87 Words ladders and a tower of Babel lead to computational heights defying assault 39
Sep 87 Diverse personalities search for social equilibrium at a computer party 40
Oct 87 After MAD: a computer game of nuclear strategy that ends in a Prisoner's Dilemma 41
Nov 87 Beauty and profundity: the Mandelbrot set and a flock of cousins called Julia 42
Dec 87 Simple special effects illustrate the art of converting algorithms into programs 43
Jan 88 Nanotechnology: wherein molecular computers control tiny circulatory submarines 44
Feb 88 A blind watchmaker surveys the land of biomorphs 45
Mar 88 A home computer laboratory in which balls become gases, liquids and critical masses 46
Apr 88 An ancient rope-and-pulley computer is unearthed in the jungle of Apraphul 47
May 88 The invisible professor holds a chalk-talk sessions on the display monitor 48
Jun 88 Imagination meets geometry in the crystalline realm of latticeworks 49
Jul 88 How to pan for primes in numerical gravel 50
Aug 88 The hodgepodge machine makes waves 51
Sep 88 Old and new three-dimensional mazes 52
Oct 88 On making an breaking Codes: Part I 53
Nov 88 On making an breaking Codes: Part II 54
Dec 88 Random walks that lead to fractal crowds 55
Jan 89 People puzzles: theme and variations 56
Feb 89 A tour of the Mandelbrot set aboard the Mandelbus 57
Mar 89 Of worms, viruses and Core War 58
Apr 89 A matter fabricator provides matter for thought 59
May 89 Simulated Evolution: wherein bugs learn to hunt bacteria 60
Jun 89 A potpourri of programmed prose. Mark v. Shaney (a computer program) 61
Jul 89 Catch of the day: biomorphs on Truchet tiles, served with popcorn and snails 62
Aug 89 A cellular universe of debris, droplets, defects, and demons 63
Sep 89 Two dimensional Turing Machines and tur-mites make tracks on a plane 64
Oct 89 A Tinkertoy computer that plays tic-tac-toe 65
Nov 89 A microgolf game gives professionals and amatuers an equal chance for a hole in one 66
Dec 89 A pandora's box of minds, machines and metaphysics 67
Jan 90 The cellular autonoma programs that create wireworld, rugworld and other diversions 68
Feb 90
Mar 90 Lunar infants, lotteries and meteorites expose the dangers of math abuse 69
Apr 90
May 90 How to transform flights of fancy into fractal flora or fauna 70
Jun 90
Jul 90 An odd journey along even roads lead to home in Golygon City 71
Aug 90
Sep 90 How to resurrect a cat from its grin 72
Oct 90
Nov 90 A compendium of math abuse from around the world 73
Dec 90 Fermat's Christmas Theorem is explained in one dickens of a tale 1
Jan 91 Tools for computer graphics make an invisible world seem less alien 74
Feb 91 The true story of how Theseus found his way out of the labyrinth 2
Mar 91 A menu of mathematical morsels, topological tidbits and puzzling plums 75
Apr 91 Why Tarzan and Jane can walk in step with the animals that roam the jungle 3
May 91 The theory of rigidity, or how to brace youself against unlikely accidents 76
Jun 91 Swift Trip over rugged terrain 4
Jul 91 Insectoids invade a field of robots, Mathematical Recreations 77
Aug 91 What in heaven is a digital sundial? 5
Sep 91 Leaping into Lyapunov space 78
Oct 91 Concentration: A Winning Strategy 6
Nov 91
Dec 91 A Short Trek to Infinity 7
Jan 92
Feb 92 The Kissing Number 8
Mar 92
Apr 92 All paths lead away from Rome 9
May 92
Jun 92 The Riddle of the vanishing camel 10
Jul 92
Aug 92 Interplanetary Olympics 11
Sep 92
Oct 92 Murder at the Ghastleigh Grange 12
Nov 92
Dec 92 Christmas in the house of chaos 13
Jan 93
Feb 93 A Partly true Story 14
Mar 93
Apr 93 The Rise and Fall of the Lunar M-pire 15
May 93
Jun 93 A Bundling Fool beats the wrap 16
Jul 93 The Topological Dressmaker 17
Aug 93
Sep 93 A shepherd takes a Sheep Shot 18
Oct 93
Nov 93 Fermat's Last Time-Trip 19
Dec 93
Jan 94 Knots, Links and Videotape 20
Feb 94
Mar 94 The New Merology of Beastly Numbers 21
Apr 94
May 94 How many guards in the gallery? 22
Jun 94
Jul 94 The ultimate in Anty-particles 23
Aug 94
Sep 94 A subway named Turing 24
Oct 94
Nov 94 Playing Chess on a Go board 25
Dec 94
Jan 95 Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do, 26
Feb 95
Mar 95 Turning the Tables around 27
Apr 95
May 95 Fibonacci Forgeries 28
Jun 95
Jul 95 Election Fever in Blockvotia 29
Aug 95
Sep 95 The Great Drain Robbery 30
Oct 96 The Never-Ending Chess Game 31
Nov 95 Ways to tile space with knots 32
Dec 95 The Anthopomurphic principle 33
Jan 96 Mother Worms Blanket 34
Feb 96 Proof of purchase on the Internet 35
Mar 96 Playing with Quads and Quazars 36
Apr 96 How fair is Monopoly? 37
May 96 The Sculptures of Alan St. George 38
Jun 96 Plastic Numbers 39
Jul 96 Arithmetic and Old Lace 40
Aug 96 Shedding a little darkness 41
Sep 96 Interrogator's Fallacy 42
Oct 96 Monopoly Revisited 43
Nov 96 A guide to computer dating 44
Dec 96 Cows in the maze 45
Jan 97 Alphamagic Squares 46
Feb 97 Crystallography of a golf ball 47
Mar 97 Juniper Green (an educational number game) 48
Apr 97 Knight's Tours 49
May 97 Big Game hunting in Primeland 50
Jun 97 Sifting the Sands of Factorland 51
Jul 97 Squaring the Square 52
Aug 97 Empires on the Moon 53
Sep 97 Empires and Electronics 54
Oct 97 Two-way jigsaw puzzles 55
Nov 97 Lore and Lure of the dice 56
Dec 97 Cat's Cradle calculus challenge 57
Jan 98 Double Bubble, Toil and Trouble 58
Feb 98 Tight Tins for round sardines 59
Mar 98 Glass Klein Bottles 60
Apr 98 Repealing the Law of Averages 61
May 98 Cementing Relationships 62
Jun 98 What a coincidence! 63
Jul 98 The Bellows Conjecture 64
Aug 98 A Quarter Century of Recreational Mathematics 4
Aug 98 Monks, Blobs and Common Knowledge 65
Sep 98 Counting the Pyramid Builders 66
Oct 98 Playing with chocolate 67
Nov 98 Resurrection Shuffle 68
Dec 98 Your Half's bigger than my Half! 69
Jan 99 Division without Envy 70
Feb 99 Origami Tessellations 71
Mar 99 The synchronicity of firefly flashing 72
Apr 99 Tangling with Topology 73
May 99 A Puzzle for Pirates 74
Jun 99 Crossed lines in the brick factory 75
Jul 99 The art of elegant tiling 76
Aug 99 Sierpinski's Ubiquitous Gasket 77
Sep 99 Dances with Dodecahedra 78
Oct 99 Cone with a Twist 79
Nov 99 Most-Perfect Magic Squares 80
Dec 99 Defend the Roman Empire! 81
Jan 00 Impossibility Theorems 82
Feb 00 Real and Virtual Sculptures 83
Mar 00 A Strategy for Subsets 84
Apr 00 Counting the Cattle of the Sun — Some problems are too big to solve by trial and error 85
May 00 Rep-Tiling the Plane — A new method makes it easy to generate intricate designs 86
Jun 00 Paradox Lost — Careful analysis can untangle some logical conundrums 87
Knotting Ventured... Shows how pieces of string can illustrate the principles of
Jul 00 88
symmetry
Aug 00 A Fractal Guide to Tic-Tac-Toe — Finds a familiar shape in unexpected places 89
Sep 00 Hex Marks the Spot — Shows how to make some winning connections 90
Oct 00 Million-Dollar Minesweeper — Explains how a computer game can make you rich 91
Nov 00 Spiral Slime — Finds mathematics in creatures great and small 92
Dec 00 Jumping Champions — Leaps over the gaps between prime numbers 93
Jan 01 Dots-and-Boxes for Experts — Reveals the secret subtleties of a children's game 94
Feb 01 Pursuing Polygonal Privacy — Proves that good fences make good neighbors 95
Mar 01 Easter is a Quasicrystal — Reveals the divine mathematics of a holiday