| 3 |
Young Archimedes
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Aldous Huxley
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Novelette
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| 35 |
Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst
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Arthur Koestler
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Short Story
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| 37 |
Mother and the Decimal Point
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Richard Llewellyn
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Short Story
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| 40 |
Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics
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James Branch Cabell
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Short Fiction
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| 46 |
Peter Learns Arithmetic
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H. G. Wells
|
Short Story
|
| 49 |
Socrates and the Slave
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Plato
|
Short Story
|
| 57 |
The Death of Archimedes
|
Karel Čapek
|
Short Story
|
| 63 |
The Devil and Simon Flagg
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Arthur Porges
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Short Story
|
| 70 |
"—And He Built a Crooked House"
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Robert A. Heinlein
|
Novelette
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| 91 |
Inflexible Logic
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Russell Maloney
|
Short Story
|
| 99 |
No-Sided Professor
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Martin Gardner
|
Short Story
|
| 110 |
Superiority
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Arthur C. Clarke
|
Short Story
|
| 121 |
The Mathematical Voodoo
|
H. Nearing, Jr.
|
Short Story
|
| 138 |
Expedition
|
Fredric Brown
|
Short Story
|
| 140 |
The Captured Cross-Section
|
Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
|
Short Story
|
| 155 |
A. Botts and the Möebius Strip
|
William H. Upson
|
Short Story
|
| 171 |
God and the Machine
|
Nigel Balchin
|
Short Story
|
| 182 |
The Tachypomp
|
Edward Page Mitchell
|
Short Story
|
| 196 |
The Island of the Five Colors
|
Martin Gardner
|
Short Story
|
| 211 |
The Last Magician
|
Bruce Elliott
|
Short Story
|
| 222 |
A Subway Named Mobius
|
A. J. Deutsch
|
Short Story
|
| 237 |
The Universal Library
|
Kurd Lasswitz
|
Short Story
|
| 244 |
Postscript to "The Universal Library"
|
Willy Ley
|
Essay
|
| 248 |
John Jones's Dollar
|
Harry Stephen Keeler
|
Short Story
|
| 261 |
A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens
|
Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
|
Poem
|
| 266 |
The Unfortunate Topologist
|
C. M. Kornbluth
|
Poem
|
| 267 |
There Once Was a Breathy Baboon
|
Arthur Eddington
|
Poem
|
| 268 |
Yet What Are All ...
|
Lewis Carroll
|
Poem
|
| 269 |
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
|
Ralph Barton
|
Poem
|
| 270 |
Mathematical Love
|
Andrew Marvell (poet)
|
Poem
|
| 271 |
The Circle
|
Christopher Morley
|
Poem
|
| 272 |
The Circle and the Square
|
Thomas Dekker
|
Poem
|
| 273 |
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare
|
Edna St. Vincent Millay
|
Poem
|
| 274 |
Euclid
|
Vachel Lindsay
|
Poem
|
| 275 |
To Think That Two and Two Are Four
|
A. E. Housman
|
Poem
|
| 276 |
The Uses of Mathematics
|
Samuel Butler
|
Poem
|
| 277 |
Arithmetic
|
Carl Sandburg
|
Poem
|
| 278 |
Threes
|
John Atherton
|
Poem
|
| 279 |
Plane Geometry
|
Emma Rounds
|
Poem
|
| 281 |
He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift
|
Herbert Dingle
|
Poem
|
| 282 |
Fearsome Fable
|
Bruce Elliott
|
Short Story
|
| 283 |
Bertrand Russell's Dream
|
G. H. Hardy
|
Essay
|
| 284 |
For All Practical Purposes
|
G. S. Ogilvy
|
Essay
|
| 285 |
Eternity: A Nightmare
|
Lewis Carroll
|
Short Fiction
|
| 286 |
An Infinity of Guests
|
George Gamow
|
Essay
|
| 287 |
Infinity
|
Arthur Eddington
|
Poem
|
| 288 |
No Power on Earth
|
Dr. William Whewell
|
Poem
|
| 289 |
(X+1)
|
Edgar Allan Poe
|
Essay
|
| 290 |
The Receptive Bosom
|
Edward Shanks
|
Essay
|
| 291 |
Leinbach's Proof
|
Arthur Schnitzler
|
Short Fiction
|
| 292 |
Problem
|
Anonymous
|
Essay
|
| 293 |
A Letter to Tennyson
|
Anonymous
|
Poem
|
| 294 |
A Fable
|
Anonymous
|
Short Fiction
|
| 295 |
There Was a Young Man from Trinity
|
Anonymous
|
Poem
|
| 296 |
There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do"
|
Anonymous
|
Poem
|
| 298 |
Relativity
|
Anonymous
|
Poem
|
| 298 |
There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk
|
Anonymous
|
Poem
|
| xiii |
Introduction (Fantasia Mathematica)
|
Clifton Fadiman
|
Essay
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