| Description |
xviii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Cartoon / Abner Dean -- Introduction / Clifton Fadiman -- Cartoon / Alan Dunn -- The Feeling of Power / Isaac Asimov -- The Law / Robert M. Coates -- The Appendix and the Spectacles / Miles J. Breuer -- Paul Bunyan versus The Conveyor Belt / William Hazlett Upson -- The Pacifist / Arthur C. Clarke -- The Hermeneutical Doughnut / H. Nearing, Jr. -- Star, Bright / Mark Clifton -- FYI / James Blish -- The Vanishing Man / Richard Hughes -- The Nine Billion Names of God / Arthur C. Clarke -- Three Mathematical Diversions / Raymond Queneau. 1. An Exercise in Style: Mathematical. 2. On the Aerodynamic Properties of Addition. 3. The Geometrical Disappearance of Dino -- The Wonderful World of Figures / Corey Ford -- A, B, and C - The Human Element in Mathematics / Stephen Leacock -- Cartoon / Johnny Hart -- A Note on the Einstein Theory / Max Beerbohm -- The Achievement of H. T. Wensel / H. Allen Smith -- Needed: Feminine Math (with an Addendum from The New Yorker on Culver City Arithmetic) / Parke Cummings -- Cartoon / Alfred Frueh -- Two Extracts / Mark Twain -- Mathematics for Golfers / Stephen Leacock -- The Mathematician's Nightmare: The Vision of Professor Squarepunt / Bertrand Russell -- Milo and the Mathemagician / Norton Juster -- Cartoon / Saul Steinberg -- Sixteen Stones / Samuel Beckett -- O'Brien's Table / J. L. Synge -- The Abominable Mr. Gunn / Robert Graves -- Coconuts / Ben Ames Williams -- Euclid and the Bright Boy / J. L. Synge -- The Purse of Fortunatus / Lewis Carroll -- Cartoon / Saul Steinberg -- The Symbolic Logic of Murder / John Reese -- Cartoon / James Frankfort -- The Square of the Hypotenuse / Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer -- The Ta Ta / Joseph Charles Holbrooke and Sidney H. Sime -- Cartoon / Saul Steinberg -- Apothems from G. C. Lichtenberg, S. J. Lec, G. Polya, Lewis Carroll, Jules Renard, George Orwell, Goethe, Winston Churchill, J. B. Mencken, A. De. Morgan, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac, Bill Mortlock, Anonymous -- A Subset of Anecdotes from A. De Morgan, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, George Gamow, W. W. R. Ball, Simon Newcomb, Elliot Paul, A. J. Lohwater -- A Little Nursery Mathematics from Iona and Peter Opie, Frederick Winsor, L. A. Graham -- A Quadrinomial of Poems. To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraical Formula / J. J. Sylvester. Portrait of a Mathematician / Christopher Morley. From The Dunciad / Alexander Pope. Geometry / William Wordsworth -- Surd and Absurd Me / Hilbert Schenck, Jr. -- Cartoon / Leo Demare. Song of the Screw / Anonymous. The Modern Hiawatha / Author Unknown. The Loves of the Triangles / John Hookham Frere and George Canning. The Mathematician in Love / W. J. M. Rankine. E = mc[superscript 2] / Morris Bishop. Engineer's Yell / Author Unknown. Rhymes by Algebra / William Whewell and Stephen Barr. Note on [theta], [phi], and [psi] / Michael Roberts. A Song Against Circles / R. P. Lister. Wockyjabber / Hilbert Schenck, Jr. Einstein: A Parody in the Manner of Edw-n Markh-m / Louis Untermeyer. Tending of Infinity / J. L. Synge. The Superlative Degree / Earnest Elmo Calkins. The Magic Box / W. R. Baker. The Kiss Precise / Frederick Soddy. The Kiss Precise (generalized) / Thorold Gosset. The Hexlet / Frederick Soddy. Short Cuts to Success / Ronald A. Knox -- A Group of Limericks. The Young Lady Named Bright / A. H. Reginald Buller. There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do . . ." / Author Unknown. Snip, Snip / Hilbert Schenck, Jr. -- Cartoon / Paul Peter Porges. The Young Man of Sid. Sussex / Arthur C. Hilton. Pun in Orbit / Hilbert Schenck, Jr. A Mathematician Confided / Author Unknown. A Mathematician Named Klein / Author Unknown -- Three Random Points. The Map of England and the Absolute / George Santayana. Cupid with an Adding Machine / Charles D. Rice. The Miniver Problem / Jan Struther and L. A. Graham |
| Analysis |
Mathematics |
| Notes |
Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1962 |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Literary collections.
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| Author |
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
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| LC no. |
97001187 |
| ISBN |
038794950X (softcover : acid-free paper) |
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