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The Mathematical Magpie

Clifton Fadiman

First published 1962
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Milton Glaser
Pages xviii+300
Price $4.95

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Page Title Author(s) Type
3 The Feeling of Power Isaac Asimov Short Story
15 The Law Robert M. Coates Short Story
20 The Appendix and the Spectacles Miles J. Breuer, M.D. Short Story
33 Paul Bunyan Versus the Conveyor Belt William Hazlett Upson Short Story
36 The Pacifist Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
48 The Hermeneutical Doughnut H. Nearing, Jr. Short Story
70 Star, Bright Mark Clifton Novelette
97 F Y I James Blish Short Story
107 The Vanishing Man Richard Hughes Short Story
111 The Nine Billion Names of God Arthur C. Clarke Short Story
121 Three Mathematical Diversions Raymond Queneau Essay
127 The Wonderful World of Figures Corey Ford Essay
131 A, B and C—The Human Element in Mathematics Stephen Leacock Short Story
137 A Note on the Einstein Theory Max Beerbohm Short Story
141 The Achievement of H.T. Wensel H. Allen Smith Short Story
143 Needed: Feminine Math Parke Cummings Essay
144 Life in California Department Parke Cummings Essay
146 Two Extracts Mark Twain Short Fiction
148 Mathematics for Golfers Stephen Leacock Essay
153 The Mathematician's Nightmare: The Vision of Professor Squarepunt Bertrand Russell Short Story
159 Milo and the Mathemagician Norton Juster Short Story
179 Sixteen Stones Samuel Beckett Short Story
186 O'Brien's Table J. L. Synge Short Story
191 The Abominable Mr. Gunn Robert Graves Short Story
196 Coconuts Ben Ames Williams Short Story
215 Euclid and the Bright Boy J. L. Synge Short Story
219 The Purse of Fortunatus Lewis Carroll Short Story
223 The Symbolic Logic of Murder John Reese Short Story
241 The Square of the Hypotenuse Saul Chaplin Essay
241 The Square of the Hypotenuse Johnny Mercer & Saul Chaplin Poem
245 The Ta Ta Joseph Charles Holbrooke Essay
245 The Ta Ta Sidney H. Sime & Joseph Charles Holbrooke Poem
253 Apothem George Christoph Lichtenberg Essay
254 Apothem Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Essay
254 Apothem G. Polya Essay
255 Apothem Lewis Carroll Essay
255 Apothem Jules Renard Essay
255 Apothem George Orwell Essay
255 Apothem Goethe Essay
255 Apothem Winston Churchill Essay
256 Apothem J. B. Mencken Essay
256 Apothem Augustus De Morgan Essay
256 Apothem Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Essay
256 Apothem Bill Mortlock Essay
256 Apothem Anonymous Essay
257 Euler, Diderot, Algebra and God Augustus De Morgan Essay
258 Paradise Lost at Cambridge Thomas Jefferson Hogg Essay
258 With Apologies to Boyal George Gamow Essay
259 Extinction by Subtraction W. W. R. Ball Essay
259 Pi and the Actuary W. W. R. Ball Essay
259 That Mason-Dixon Line Simon Newcomb Essay
260 Mathematics Chez Madame Mariette Elliot Paul Essay
261 The Devil a Mathematician Would Be A. J. Lohwater Essay
262 Verse Frederick Winsor Poem
262 Verse Anonymous Poem
263 Riddle Anonymous Poem
263 Three Verses Frederick Winsor Poem
264 Three Verses L. A. Graham Poem
265 To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraic Formula J. J. Sylvester Poem
266 from "The Dunciad" Alexander Pope Poem
266 Geometry William Wordsworth Poem
266 Portrait of a Mathematician Christopher Morley Poem
269 Me Hilbert Schenck Poem
271 Song of the Screw Anonymous Poem
273 The Modern Hiawatha Anonymous Poem
274 The Loves of the Triangles John Hookham Frere & George Canning Poem
276 The Mathematician in Love W. J. M. Rankine Poem
278 E=mc² Morris Bishop Poem
278 Engineer's Yell Anonymous Poem
279 Note on Theta, Phi, and Psi Michael Roberts Poem
279 Verse Dr. William Whewell Poem
279 Verse Stephen Barr Poem
281 A Song Against Circles R. P. Lister Poem
281 Wockyjabber Hilbert Schenck, Jr. Poem
282 Einstein: A Parody in the Manner of Edw-n Markh-m Louis Untermeyer Poem
283 Tending to Infinity J. L. Synge Poem
283 The Magic Box W. R. Baker Poem
283 The Superlative Degree Ernest Elmo Calkins Poem
284 The Kiss Precise Frederick Soddy Poem
285 The Kiss Precise (Generalized) Thorold Gossett Poem
286 The Hexlet Frederick Soddy Poem
287 Short Cuts to Success Ronald A. Knox Short Story
289 There Was a Young Lady Named Bright A. H. Reginald Buller Poem
290 Sequel to "There Was a Young Lady Named Bright" A. H. Reginald Buller Poem
290 Snip, Snip Hilbert Schenck, Jr. Poem
290 There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do..." Anonymous Poem
292 A Mathematician Confided Anonymous Poem
292 Pun in Orbit Hilbert Schenck, Jr. Poem
292 The Young Man of Sid. Sussex Arthur C. Hilton Poem
293 A Mathematician Named Klein Anonymous Poem
294 The Map of England and the Absolute George Santayana Short Story
296 Cupid with an Adding Machine Charles D. Rice Short Story
298 The Miniver Problem L. A. Graham & Jan Struther Essay
xii Introduction (The Mathematical Magpie) Clifton Fadiman Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Mathematical Magpie Cover 1997 Copernicus Trade Paperback Anthology Ilya Bolotowsky xviii+303