Book:Clifton Fadiman/The Mathematical Magpie

Contents

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 * Introduction by


 * I. A SET OF IMAGINARIES


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 * by William Hazlett Upson
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 * II. COMIC SECTIONS


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 * 1 &mdash; An Exercise in Style: Mathematical
 * 2 &mdash; On the Aerodynamic Properties of Addition
 * 3 &mdash; The Geometrical Disappearance of Dino
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 * (with an Addendum from The New Yorker on Culver City Arithmetic) by Parke Cummings
 * by Alfred Frueh
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 * III. IRREGULAR FIGURES


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 * IV. SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTIONS


 * by James Frankfort
 * Music by 
 * Lyrics by 
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 * V. DIVIDENDS AND REMAINDERS


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 * by, , , , , , , , J. B. Mencken, , , Bill Mortlock, Anonymous


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 * by, , L. A. Graham


 * To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraical formula by
 * Portrait of a Mathematician by
 * From The Dunciad by
 * Geometry by
 * Geometry by


 * Me by
 * by Leo Demaré
 * Song of the Screw &mdash; Anonymous
 * The Modern Hiawatha &mdash; Author Unknown
 * The Loves of the Triangles by and
 * The Mathematician in Love by
 * $E = m c^2$ by
 * Engineer's Yell &mdash; Author Unknown
 * Rhymes by Algebra by and
 * Notes on $\theta$, $\phi$ and $\psi$ by
 * A Song Against Circles by
 * Wockyjabber by
 * Einstein: A Parody in the Manner of by
 * Tending to Infinity by
 * The Superlative Degree by
 * The Magic Box by W. R. Baker
 * The Kiss Precise by
 * The Kiss Precise (generalized) by
 * The Hexlet by
 * Short Cuts to Success by
 * Short Cuts to Success by


 * The Young Lady Named Bright by
 * There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do $\ldots$" – Author Unknown
 * Snip, Snip by
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 * The Young Man of Sid. Sussex by Arthur C. Hilton
 * Pun in Orbit by
 * A Mathematician Confided – Author Unknown
 * A Mathematician Named Klein – Author Unknown


 * The Map of England and the Absolute by
 * Cupid with an Adding Machine by Charles D. Rice
 * The Miniver Problem by and L. A. Graham
 * The Miniver Problem by and L. A. Graham