Fantasia Mathematica ed. Clifton Fadiman (Simon & Schuster, 1958, 0-671-24450-7, $4.95, 298pp, hc, an)
- xiii · Introduction · Clifton Fadiman · in
- 1 · I. Odd Numbers
- 3 · Young Archimedes · Aldous Huxley · nv Little Mexican by Aldous Huxley, Chatto & Windus, 1924
- 35 · Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst · Arthur Koestler · ex from Arrival and Departure, Jonathan Cape, 1943
- 37 · Mother and the Decimal Point · Richard Llewellyn · ex from How Green Was My Valley, Michael Joseph, 1939
- 40 · Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics · James Branch Cabell · ex from Jurgen, McBride, 1919
- 46 · Peter Learns Arithmetic · H. G. Wells · ex from Joan and Peter, Cassell, 1918
- 49 · Socrates and the Slave · Plato; translated by Benjamin Jowett · ex from Meno, Liberal Arts Press, 1949
- 57 · The Death of Archimedes · Karel Capek · ss Apocryphal Stories by Karel Capek, George Allen & Unwin, 1949
- 61 · II. Imaginaries
- 63 · The Devil and Simon Flagg · Arthur Porges · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1954
- 70 · “—And He Built a Crooked House” · Robert A. Heinlein · nv Astounding Science-Fiction February 1941
- 91 · Inflexible Logic · Russell Maloney · ss The New Yorker February 3 1940
- 99 · No-Sided Professor · Martin Gardner · ss Esquire January 1947
- 110 · Superiority · Arthur C. Clarke · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1951
- 121 · The Mathematical Voodoo [C.P. Ransom] · H. Nearing, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1951
- 138 · Expedition · Fredric Brown · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1957
- 140 · The Captured Cross-Section · Miles J. Breuer, M.D. · ss Amazing Stories February 1929
- 155 · A. Botts and the Möebius Strip [Alexander Botts] · William H. Upson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 22 1945
- 171 · God and the Machine · Nigel Balchin · ss 1951
- 182 · The Tachypomp · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun January 1874, uncredited.
- 196 · The Island of the Five Colors · Martin Gardner · ss Future Tense ed. Kendell Foster Crossen, Greenberg, 1952
- 211 · The Last Magician · Bruce Elliott · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1953
- 222 · A Subway Named Mobius · A. J. Deutsch · ss Astounding Science Fiction December 1950
- 237 · The Universal Library · Kurd Lasswitz; translated by Willy Ley · ss; abridged.
translated from German (“Die Universalbibliothek”, Ostdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 18, 1904).
- 244 · Postscript to “The Universal Library” · Willy Ley · as
- 248 · John Jones’ Dollar · Harry Stephen Keeler · ss The Black Cat August 1915
- 259 · III Fractions
- 261 · A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens · Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · pm From a Cornish Widow by A. T. Quiller-Couch, E.F. Dutton and Company, 1906
- 266 · The Unfortunate Topologist · C. M. Kornbluth · pm The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1957, as by S. D. Gottesman
- 267 · There Once Was a Breathy Baboon · Arthur Eddington · pm (r)
- 268 · Yet What Are All… · Lewis Carroll · pm Phantasmagoria, and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll, Macmillan, 1869
- 269 · Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star · Ralph Barton · pm Science in Rhyme and Without Reason by Ralph Barton, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924
- 270 · Mathematical Love · Andrew Marvell · pm from “The Definition of Love”, 1681
- 271 · The Circle · Christopher Morley · pm Chimney Smoke by Christopher Morley, George H. Doran Company, 1917
- 272 · The Circle and the Square · Thomas Dekker · ex from The Honest Whore, 1604
- 273 · Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm American Poetry Anthology 1922
- 274 · Euclid · Vachel Lindsay · pm The Congo and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay, Macmillan, 1914
- 275 · To Think That Two and Two Are Four · A. E. Housman · pm Collected Poems of A.E. Housman by A. E. Housman, Jonathan Cape, 1939
- 276 · The Uses of Mathematics · Samuel Butler · pm from Hudibras, 1663
- 277 · Arithmetic · Carl Sandburg · pm Complete Poems by Carl Sandburg, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1950
- 278 · Threes · John Atherton · pm The New Yorker March 2 1957, as “To Be Sung by Niels Bohr”
- 279 · Plane Geometry · Emma Rounds · pm Creative Youth ed. Hugh Mearns, Doubleday, 1925
- 281 · He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift · Herbert Dingle · pm 1933
from The Expanding Universe by Sir Arthur Eddington.
- 282 · Fearsome Fable · Bruce Elliott · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1951
- 283 · Bertrand Russell’s Dream · G. H. Hardy · ex from A Mathematician’s Apology, Cambridge University Press, 1940
- 284 · For All Practical Purposes · G. S. Ogilvy · ex from Through the Mathescope, The Oxford University Press, 1956
- 285 · Eternity: A Nightmare · Lewis Carroll · ex from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded, Macmillan, December 1893
- 286 · An Infinity of Guests · George Gamow · ex from One Two Three…Infinity, Viking, 1947
- 287 · Infinity · Arthur Eddington · ex from New Pathways in Science, Cambridge University Press, 1935
- 288 · No Power on Earth · Dr. William Whewell · pm from An Elementary Treatise on Mechanics, J. Smith, 1819; revised.
- 289 · X+1 · Edgar Allan Poe · ex from “Review of A Fable for the Critics”, Southern Literary Messenger March 1849
- 290 · The Receptive Bosom · Edward Shanks · ex from “Review of The World of Numbers by H. McKay”, The Sunday Times February 10 1946
- 291 · Leinbach’s Proof · Arthur Schnitzler · ex from Flight Into Darkness, Simon & Schuster, 1931
- 292 · Problem · [uncredited] · ex from “Talk of the Town”, The New Yorker March 2 1957
- 293 · A Letter from Tennyson · [uncredited] · ms The Mathematical Gazette
- 294 · A Fable (“Once upon a time there was a teacher”) · [uncredited] · vi The Mathematical Gazette #38, 1954
- 295 · There Was a Young Man from Trinity · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 296 · There Was an Old Man Who Said, “Do” · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 297 · Relativity · [uncredited] · pm (r)
- 298 · There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk · [uncredited] · pm (r)
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