This CD-rom contains all the "Mathematical Games" columns written by Martin Gardner that ran in "Scientific American" from 1956 to 1986 on one CD in a searchable database. Martin Gardner fans now have a resource that make it easy to find any subject Gardner wrote about in his columns. Type a word in the "Search" box, press "Go" and a list of columns will appear.

In these columns Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman on public-key cryptography, Mandelbrot on fractals, Conway on Life, and Penrose on tilings. He enlivened classic geometry and number theory and introduced readers to new areas such as combinatorics and graph theory.

This disk contains the following books:

1. The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games (retitled Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions)

2. The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and

Diversions)

3. New Mathematical Diversions

4. The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions

5. Martin Gardner's 6th Book of Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American

6. Mathematical Carnival

7. Mathematical Magic Show

8. Mathematical Circus

9. The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix (including all the material that was in earlier Dr. Matrix books, the first of which would have been the fifth book in this series)

10. Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements

11. Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainments

12. Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments

13. Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers

14. Fractal Music, Hypercards, and More Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American

15. The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications

System Requirements:

Windows

Intel® Pentium® processor

Microsoft® Windows 98 (2nd Ed), Windows Millennium, Windows NT 4.0 (Service Pack 6), Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2), Windows XP

128MB of RAM

60MB of available hard-disk space (if you install Reader)

Macintosh

PowerPC G3 processor

Mac OS X v. 10.2.2-10.3

128MB of RAM with virtual memory on

70MB of available hard-disk space (for Reader)