TY - BOOK AU - Gardner, Martin. TI - Penrose tiles to trapdoor Ciphers: and the return of Dr.Matrix SN - 0883855216 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Mathematical Association of America KW - Jeux mathématiques KW - Puzzles and games KW - Mathematical recreations N1 - Penrose tiling Penrose tiling II Mandelbrot's fractals Conway's surreal numbers Back from the Klondike and other problems The Oulipo The Oulipo II Wythoff's Nim Pool-ball triangles and other problems Mathematical induction and colored hats Negative numbers Cutting shapes into n congruent parts Trapdoor ciphers Trapdoor ciphers II Hyperbolas The new Eleusis Ramsey theory From Burrs to Berrocal Sicherman dice, the Kruskal count and other curiosities Raymond Smullyan's logic puzzles The return of Dr. Matrix N2 - A collection of some of Gardner's "Mathematical Games" columns from twenty-five years of Scientific American. New material included in a bibliography and a postscript ER -