I have two different Annotated Alices, both by Martin Gardner. Wonderful stuff. I saw an Annotated Snark in the reference section of a library years ago, but haven't found it for sale anywhere.
He used to write the Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions column for Scientific American. I don't know if he is still alive -- I was reading his columns collected in books back in 1965.
Anniemal is correct that I haven't read an annotated version (yet).
As for Martin Gardner, I used to enjoy his column in Scientific American in the 1970s and 1980s; I only stumbled across one slim volume of his work in book form. It was his review of Douglas Hofstader's (oh, I've probably misspelled that) Godel, Escher, Bach that turned me on to that book (not too long before Hofstader's column replaced Gardner's in SciAm, IIRC).
Re: chortle
He used to write the Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions column for Scientific American. I don't know if he is still alive -- I was reading his columns collected in books back in 1965.
Hexaflexagons! Polyominoes! Moebius strips!
Re: chortle
As for Martin Gardner, I used to enjoy his column in Scientific American in the 1970s and 1980s; I only stumbled across one slim volume of his work in book form. It was his review of Douglas Hofstader's (oh, I've probably misspelled that) Godel, Escher, Bach that turned me on to that book (not too long before Hofstader's column replaced Gardner's in SciAm, IIRC).