Book:Clifton Fadiman/The Mathematical Magpie

Contents

 * by Abner Dean
 * Introduction by CLIFTON FADIMAN


 * I. A SET OF IMAGINARIES


 * by Alan Dunn
 * by Isaac Asimov
 * by Robert M. Coates
 * by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
 * by William Hazlett Upson
 * by Arthur C. Clarke
 * by H. Nearing, Jr.
 * by Mark Clifton
 * by James Blish
 * by Richard Hughes
 * by Arthur C. Clarke


 * II. COMIC SECTIONS


 * 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
 * by Corey Ford
 * by Stephen Leacock
 * by Johnny Hart
 * by Max Beerbohm
 * by H. Allen Smith
 * (with an Addendum from The New Yorker on Culver City Arithmetic) by Parke Cummings
 * by Alfred Frueh
 * by Mark Twain
 * by Stephen Leacock
 * by Bertrand Russell
 * by Norton Juster


 * III. IRREGULAR FIGURES


 * by Saul Steinberg
 * by Samuel Beckett
 * by J. L. Synge
 * by Robert Graves
 * by Ben Ames Williams
 * by J. L. Synge
 * (an excerpt from Sylvie and Bruno) by Lewis Carroll
 * by Saul Steinberg
 * by John Reese


 * IV. SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTIONS


 * by James Frankfort
 * Music by Saul Chaplin
 * Lyrics by Johnny Mercer
 * Music by Joseph Charles Holbrooke
 * Lyrics by Sidney H. Sime
 * Music by Joseph Charles Holbrooke
 * Lyrics by Sidney H. Sime


 * V. DIVIDENDS AND REMAINDERS


 * by Saul Steinberg


 * 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


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


 * by Iona and Peter Opie, Frederick Winsor, L. A. Graham


 * 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
 * Geometry by William Wordsworth


 * Me by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.
 * 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
 * Short Cuts to Success by Ronald A. Knox


 * 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.
 * Snip, Snip by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.


 * 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


 * 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
 * The Miniver Problem by Jan Struther and L. A. Graham