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Martin Gardner was a renowned author who published over 70 books on subjects from science and math to poetry and religion. He also had a lifelong passion for magic tricks and puzzles. Well known for his mathematical games column in Scientific American and his "Trick of the Month" in Physics Teacher magazine, Gardner attracted a loyal following with his intelligence, wit, and imagination.

Martin Gardner: A Remembrance
The worldwide mathematical community was saddened by the death of Martin Gardner on May 22, 2010. Martin was 95 years old when he died, and had written 70 or 80 books during his long lifetime as an author. Martin's first Dover books were published in 1956 and 1957: Mathematics, Magic and Mystery, one of the first popular books on the intellectual excitement of mathematics to reach a wide audience, and Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, certainly one of the first popular books to cast a devastatingly skeptical eye on the claims of pseudoscience and the many guises in which the modern world has given rise to it. Both of these pioneering books are still in print with Dover today along with more than a dozen other titles of Martin's books. They run the gamut from his elementary Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing, which has been enjoyed by generations of younger readers since the 1980s, to the more demanding The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from Mirror Reflections to Superstrings, which Dover published in its final revised form in 2005.

To those of us who have been associated with Dover for a long time, however, Martin was more than an author, albeit a remarkably popular and successful one. As a member of the small group of long-time advisors and consultants, which included NYU's Morris Kline in mathematics, Harvard's I. Bernard Cohen in the history of science, and MIT's J. P. Den Hartog in engineering, Martin's advice and editorial suggestions in the formative 1950s helped to define the Dover publishing program and give it the point of view which — despite many changes, new directions, and the consequences of evolution — continues to be operative today.

In the Author's Own Words:
"Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results are regarded by their peers as committing an inexcusable crime. Yet the sad fact is that the history of science swarms with cases of outright fakery and instances of scientists who unconsciously distorted their work by seeing it through lenses of passionately held beliefs."

"A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?" — Martin Gardner

INTRODUCTION ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Rock Me to Sleep MATTHEW ARNOLD Dover Beach WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON The Night Has a Thousand Eyes ROBERT BROWNING Pippa's Song Meeting at Night WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Thanatopsis GELETT BURGESS The Purple Cow ROBERT BURNS To a Mouse Is There for Honest Poverty' "GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON" She Walks in beauty The Destruction of Sennacherib BLISS CARMAN A Vagabond Song LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky ARTHUR CHAPMAN Out Where the West Begins SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan STEPHEN CRANE A Man Said to the Universe' EMILY DICKINSON I Never Saw a Moor' If I Can Stop One Heart from Breaking' There Is No Frigate Like a Book' Because I Could Not Stop for Death' JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE The American Flag RALPH WALDO EMERSON Concord Hymn EUGENE FIELD Little Boy Blue "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" The Duel SAM WALTER FOSS The House by the Side of the Road ROBERT FROST Mending Wall Fire and Ice Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening THOMAS GRAY Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard EDGAR GUEST Home It Couldn't Be Done SARAH JOSEPHA HALE Mary's Lamb FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Casabianca The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Invictus OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Old Ironsides The Last Leaf The Deacon's Masterpiece THOMAS HOOD The Song of the Shirt The Bridge of Sighs RICHARD HOVEY Th Sea Gypsy JULIA WARD HOWE Battle Hymn of the Republic LEIGH HUNT Abou Ben Adhem Jenny Kiss'd Me JOHN KEATS On First Looking into Chapman's Homer La Belle Dame sans Merci Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode to a Nightingale JOYCE KILMER Trees RUDYARD KIPLING Recessional Mandalay Danny Deever If- Tommy Boots Gunga Din L'Envoi ('When Earth's last picture is painted') EDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Day Is Done A Psalm of Life Paul Revere's Ride The Village Blacksmith The Wreck of the Hesperus The Arrow and the Song The Children's Hour Excelsior There Was a Little Girl JOHN MCCRAE In Flanders Fields EDWIN MARKHAM The Man with the Hoe JOHN MASEFIELD Sea Fever Cargoes HUGHES MEARNS Antigonish EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Renascence Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare' First Fig JOAQUIN MILLER Columbus CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE A Visit from St. Nicholas GEORGE POPE MORRIS "Woodman, Spare That Tree!" ALFRED NOYES The Highwayman The Barrel-Organ JOHN HOWARD PAYNE "Home, Sweet Home" EDGAR ALLAN POE The Raven Annabel Lee To Helen The Bells ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER The Lost Chord JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY The Old Swimmin'-Hole An Old Sweetheart of Mine Little Orphant Annie When the Frost Is on the Punkin CARL SANDBURG Chicago Fog JOHN GODFREY SAXE The Blind Men and the Elephant ALAN SEEGER I Have a Rendezvous with Death ROBERT SERVICE The Shooting of Dan McGrew The Cremation of Sam McGee PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY To a Skylark Ozymandias LANGDON SMITH Evolution ROBERT SOUTHEY The Battle of Blenheim ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Requiem Bed in Summer Happy Thought JANE TAYLOR The Star "ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON" The Charge of the Light Brigade Crossing the Bar "Break, Break, Break'" Flower in the Crannied Wall' ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER Casey at the Bat ROSE HARTWICK THORPE Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight WALT WHITMAN Oh Captain! My Captain! When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The Barefoot Boy Maud Muller ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Solitude The Winds of Fate SAMUEL WOODWORTH The Old Oaken Bucket WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sep. 3, 1802" The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon' "It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free'" Alphabetical List of Titles Alphabetical List of First Lines