- Publication: Fantasia MathematicaPublication Record # 258768
- Editor: Clifton Fadiman
- Date: date unknown
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Price: $1.45?$: US dollar
- Pages: xix+298
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Format: tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Cover: Fantasia Mathematica by Milton Glaser
Anthology Title:
Fantasia Mathematica • (1958) • anthology by
Clifton Fadiman
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- xiii • Introduction (Fantasia Mathematica) • (1958) • essay by Clifton Fadiman
- 3 • Young Archimedes • non-genre • (1924) • novelette by Aldous Huxley
- 35 • Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst • (1943) • short story by Arthur Koestler
- 37 • Mother and the Decimal Point • non-genre • (1940) • short story by Richard Llewellyn
- 40 • Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics • [Biography of the Life of Manuel] • (1958) • short fiction by James Branch Cabell
- 46 • Peter Learns Arithmetic • non-genre • (1958) • short story by H. G. Wells
- 49 • Socrates and the Slave • short story by Plato
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57 • The Death of Archimedes • (1949) • short story by
Karel Čapek?Karel Capek(trans. of Smrt Archimédova 1938)
Karel Chapek - 63 • The Devil and Simon Flagg • (1954) • short story by Arthur Porges
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70 • "—And He Built a Crooked House"?"-And He Built a Crooked House"• (1941) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
- 91 • Inflexible Logic • (1940) • short story by Russell Maloney
- 99 • No-Sided Professor • [Dr. Stanislav Slapernarski • 1] • (1947) • short story by Martin Gardner
- 110 • Superiority • (1951) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 121 • The Mathematical Voodoo • [C. P. Ransom • 2] • (1951) • short story by H. Nearing, Jr.
- 138 • Expedition • (1956) • short story by Fredric Brown
- 140 • The Captured Cross-Section • (1929) • short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
- 155 • A. Botts and the Möebius Strip • non-genre • (1945) • short story by William H. Upson
- 171 • God and the Machine • (1951) • short story by Nigel Balchin
- 182 • The Tachypomp • (1874) • short story by Edward Page Mitchell
- 196 • The Island of the Five Colors • [Dr. Stanislav Slapernarski • 2] • (1952) • short story by Martin Gardner
- 211 • The Last Magician • (1953) • short story by Bruce Elliott
- 222 • A Subway Named Mobius • (1950) • short story by A. J. Deutsch
- 237 • The Universal Library • (1958) • short story by Kurd Lasswitz (trans. of Die Universalbibliothek 1904)
- 244 • Postscript to "The Universal Library" • (1958) • essay by Willy Ley
- 248 • John Jones's Dollar • (1915) • short story by Harry Stephen Keeler
- 261 • A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens • (1958) • poem by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as by Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch]
- 266 • The Unfortunate Topologist • (1957) • poem by C. M. Kornbluth
- 267 • There Once Was a Breathy Baboon • (1958) • poem by Arthur Eddington
- 268 • Yet What Are All ... • (1958) • poem by Lewis Carroll
- 269 • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • (1924) • poem by Emil Raymond [as by Ralph Barton]
- 270 • Mathematical Love • (1950) • poem by Andrew Marvell
- 271 • The Circle • (1958) • poem by Christopher Morley
- 272 • The Circle and the Square • (1958) • poem by Thomas Dekker
- 273 • Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare • (1922) • poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 274 • Euclid • (1914) • poem by Vachel Lindsay
- 275 • To Think That Two and Two Are Four • (1940) • poem by A. E. Housman
- 276 • The Uses of Mathematics • (1863) • poem by Samuel Butler
- 277 • Arithmetic • (1950) • poem by Carl Sandburg
- 278 • Threes • (1957) • poem by John Atherton
- 279 • Plane Geometry • (1925) • poem by Emma Rounds
- 281 • He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift • (1958) • poem by Herbert Dingle
- 282 • Fearsome Fable • (1951) • short story by Bruce Elliott
- 283 • Bertrand Russell's Dream • (1948) • essay by G. H. Hardy
- 284 • For All Practical Purposes • (1958) • essay by G. S. Ogilvy
- 285 • Eternity: A Nightmare • (1893) • short fiction by Lewis Carroll
- 286 • An Infinity of Guests • (1947) • essay by George Gamow
- 287 • Infinity • (1935) • poem by Arthur Eddington
- 288 • No Power on Earth • (1958) • poem by Dr. William Whewell
- 289 • (X+1) • (1958) • essay by Edgar Allan Poe
- 290 • The Receptive Bosom • (1958) • essay by Edward Shanks
- 291 • Leinbach's Proof • (1931) • short fiction by Arthur Schnitzler
- 292 • Problem • (1957) • essay by Anonymous
- 293 • A Letter to Tennyson • (1958) • poem by Anonymous
- 294 • A Fable • non-genre • (1954) • short fiction by Anonymous
- 295 • There Was a Young Man from Trinity • (1958) • poem by Anonymous
- 296 • There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do" • (1958) • poem by Anonymous
- 297 • Relativity • (1958) • poem by Anonymous
- 298 • There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk • (1958) • poem by Anonymous
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