Fantasia mathematica : being a set of stories, together with a group of oddments and diversions, all drawn from the universe of mathematics
Stories by Aldous Huxley, Arthur Koestler, H.G. Wells, Plato, et al
Literature
xix, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780387949314, 0387949313
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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
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1958