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| Genre/Form: | Literary collections |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Clifton Fadiman |
| ISBN: | 0387949313 9780387949314 |
| OCLC Number: | 36407849 |
| Notes: | Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1958. |
| Description: | xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction / Clifton Fadiman -- Odd numbers. Young Archimedes / Aldous Huxley -- Pythagoras and the psychoanalyst / Arthur Koestler -- Mother and the decimal point / Richard Llewellyn -- Jurgen proves it by mathematics / James Branch Cabell -- Peter learns arithmetic / H.G. Wells -- Socrates and the slave / Plato -- The death of Archimedes / Karel Čapek -- Imaginaries. The devil and Simon Flagg / Arthur Porges -- And he built a crooked house / Robert A. Heinlein -- Inflexible logic / Russelll Maloney -- No-sided professor / Martin Gardner -- Superiority / Arthur C. Clarke -- The mathematical vodoo / H. Nearing, Jr. -- Expedition / Frederic Brown -- The captured cross-section / Miles J. Breuer -- A. Botts and the Moebius strip / William Hazlett Upson -- God and the machine / Nigel Balchin -- The Tachypomp / Edward Page Mitchell -- The island of five colors / Martin Gardner -- The last magician / Bruce Elliott -- A subway names Moebius / A.J. Deutsch -- The universal library / Kurd Lasswitz -- Postscript to "The Universal Library" / Willy Ley -- John Jones's dollar / Harry Stephen Keeler -- Fractions. A new ballad of Sir Patrick Spens / Arthur T. Quiller-Couch -- The unfortunate topologist / Cyril Kornbluth -- There once was a breathy baboon / Arthur Eddington -- Yet what are all / Lewis Carroll -- Twinkle, twinkle, little star / Ralph Barton -- Mathematical love / Andrew Marvell -- The circle / Christopher Morley -- The circle and the square / Thomas Dekker -- Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Euclid / Vachel Lindsay -- To think that two and two are four / A.E. Housman -- The uses of mathematics / Samuel Butler -- Arithmetic / Carl Sandburg -- Threes (to be sung by Niels Bohr) / John Atherton -- Plane geometry / Emma Rounds -- He thought he saw electrons swift / Herbert Dingle -- Fearsome fable / Bruce Elliott -- Bertrand Russell's dream / G.H. Hardy -- For all practical purposes / C. Stanley Ogilvy -- Eternity: a nightmare / Lewis Carroll -- An infinity of guests / Geroge Gamow -- "/ Arthur Eddington -- No power on earth / William Whewell -- (x [plus] 1) / Edgar Allan Poe -- The receptive bosom / Edward Shanks -- Leinbach's proof / Arthur Schnitzler -- Problem from the New Yorker: "Talk of the town" -- A letter to Tennyson from Mathematical Gazette -- A fable from Mathematical Gazette -- There was a young man from Trinity / Anonymous -- There was an old man who said, "Do" -- Relativity / Anonymous -- There was a young fellow named Fisk / Anonymous. |
| Responsibility: | compiled and edited by Clifton Fadiman. |
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Abstract:
Clifton Fadiman's classic collection of mathematical stories, essays and anecdotes is now once again available. Humorous, mysterious, and always entertaining, this collection is sure to bring a smile to the faces of mathematicians and non-mathematicians alike.
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