Book:Clifton Fadiman/The Mathematical Magpie

Contents

 * Cartoon by Abner Dean
 * Introduction by CLIFTON FADIMAN


 * I. A SET OF IMAGINARIES


 * Cartoon by Alan Dunn
 * The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov
 * The Law by Robert M. Coates
 * The Appendix and the Spectacles by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
 * Paul Bunyan versus the Conveyor Belt by William Hazlett Upson
 * The Pacifist by Arthur C. Clarke
 * The Hermeneutical Doughnut by H. Nearing, Jr.
 * Star, Bright by Mark Clifton
 * FYI by James Blish
 * The Vanishing Man by Richard Hughes
 * The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke


 * II. COMIC SECTIONS


 * Three Mathematical Diversions by Raymond Queneau
 * 1 &mdash; An Exercise in Style: Mathematical
 * 2 &mdash; On the Aerodynamic Properties of Addition
 * 3 &mdash; The Geometrical Disappearance of Dino
 * The Wonderful World of Figures by Corey Ford
 * A, B, and C &mdash; The Human Element in Mathematics by Stephen Leacock
 * Cartoon by Johnny Hart
 * A Note on The Einstein Theory by Max Beerbohm
 * The Achievement of H. T. Wensel by H. Allen Smith
 * Needed: Feminine Math (with an Addendum from The New Yorker on Culver City Arithmetic) by Parke Cummings
 * Cartoon by Alfred Frueh
 * Two Extracts by Mark Twain
 * Mathematics for Golfers by Stephen Leacock
 * The Mathematician's Nightmare: The Vision of Professor Squarepunt by Bertrand Russell
 * Milo and the Mathemagician by Norton Juster


 * III. IRREGULAR FIGURES


 * Cartoon by Saul Steinberg
 * Sixteen Stones by Samuel Beckett
 * O'Brien's Table by J. L. Synge
 * The Abominable Mr. Gunn by Robert Graves
 * Coconuts by Ben Ames Williams
 * Euclid and the Bright Boy by J. L. Synge
 * The Purse of Fortunatus (an excerpt from Sylvie and Bruno) by Lewis Carroll
 * Cartoon by Saul Steinberg
 * The Symbolic Logic of Murder by John Reese


 * IV. SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTIONS


 * Cartoon by James Frankfort
 * The Square of the Hypotenuse
 * Music by Saul Chaplin
 * Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
 * The Ta Ta
 * Music by Joseph Charles Holbrooke
 * Lyrics by Sidney H. Sime


 * V. DIVIDENDS AND REMAINDERS


 * Cartoon by Saul Steinberg


 * Apothems by 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 by A. De Morgan, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, George Gamow, W. W. R. Ball, Simon Newcomb, Elliot Paul, A. J. Lohwater


 * A Little Nursery Mathematics by 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 by J. J. Sylvester
 * Portrait of a Mathematician by Christopher Morley
 * From The Dunciad by Alexander Pope
 * Geometry by William Wordsworth


 * Surd and Absurd
 * Me by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.
 * Cartoon by Leo Demaré
 * Song of the Screw &mdash; Anonymous
 * The Modern Hiawatha &mdash; Author Unknown
 * The Loves of the Triangles by John Hookham Frere and George Canning
 * The Mathematician in Love by W. J. M. Rankine
 * $E = m c^2$ by Morris Bishop
 * Engineer's Yell &mdash; Author Unknown
 * Rhymes by Algebra by William Whewell and Stephen Barr
 * Notes on $theta$, $\phi$ and $\psi$ by Michael Roberts
 * A Song Against Circles by R. P. Lister
 * Wockyjabber by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.
 * Einstein: A Parody in the Manner of Edwin Markham by Louis Untermeyer
 * Tending to Infinity by J. L. Synge
 * The Superlative Degree by Earnest Elmo Calkins
 * The Magic Box by W. R. Baker
 * The Kiss Precise by Frederick Soddy
 * The Kiss Precise (generalized) by Thorold Gosset
 * The Hexlet by Frederick Soddy
 * Short Cuts to Success by Ronald A. Knox


 * A Group of Limericks
 * The Young Lady Named Bright by A. H. Reginald Buller, F. R. S.
 * There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do $\ldots$" – Author Unknown
 * Snip, Snip by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.


 * Cartoon by Paul Peter Porges
 * The Young Man of Sid. Sussex by Arthur C. Hilton
 * Pun in Orbit by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.
 * A Mathematician Confided – Author Unknown
 * A Mathematician Named Klein – Author Unknown


 * Three Random Points
 * The Map of England and the Absolute by George Santayana
 * Cupid with an Adding Machine by Charles D. Rice
 * The Miniver Problem by Jan Struther and L. A. Graham