Mathematical Games column

Over a period of 24 years (January 1957-December 1980), Martin Gardner wrote 288 consecutive "Mathematical Games" columns for Scientific American magazine. Subsequently, he alternated with other authors, producing 9 more columns under that title (February 1981-June 1986), for a total of 297. These are listed in chronological order below.

The subjects of twelve of the columns provided the cover art for the magazine in the month they were published. These columns are indicated in the table below by the word [cover] and a link to the associated cover.

Gardner wrote 5 other articles for Scientific American. His flexagon 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. These five articles are listed below.

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