- Publication: The Mathematical MagpiePublication Record # 258747
- Editor: Clifton Fadiman
- Date: date unknown
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Price: $1.75?$: US dollar
- Pages: xviii+300
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Format: tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
- Type: ANTHOLOGY
- Cover: The Mathematical Magpie by Milton Glaser
Anthology Title:
The Mathematical Magpie • (1962) • anthology by Clifton Fadiman
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- x • Cartoon: "No one can touch me" • (1947) • interior artwork by Abner Dean
- xiii • Introduction (The Mathematical Magpie) • (1962) • essay by Clifton Fadiman
- 2 • Cartoon: "Does 63592187653.4215400532 look right to you?" • (1955) • interior artwork by Alan Dunn
- 3 • The Feeling of Power • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov
- 15 • The Law • (1947) • short story by Robert M. Coates
- 20 • The Appendix and the Spectacles • (1928) • short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
- 33 • Paul Bunyan Versus the Conveyor Belt • (1949) • short story by William Hazlett Upson
- 36 • The Pacifist • [Tales from the White Hart] • (1956) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 48 • The Hermeneutical Doughnut • [C. P. Ransom • 13] • (1954) • short story by H. Nearing, Jr.
- 70 • Star, Bright • (1952) • novelette by Mark Clifton
- 97 • F Y I • (1953) • short story by James Blish
- 107 • The Vanishing Man • (1926) • short story by Richard Hughes
- 111 • The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 121 • Three Mathematical Diversions • (1958) • essay by Raymond Queneau
- 127 • The Wonderful World of Figures • (1961) • essay by Corey Ford
- 131 • A, B and C—The Human Element in Mathematics • (1910) • short story by Stephen Leacock
- 136 • Cartoon: complete 10-panel strip • (1961) • interior artwork by Johnny Hart
- 137 • A Note on the Einstein Theory • non-genre • (1923) • short story by Max Beerbohm
- 141 • The Achievement of H.T. Wensel • (1960) • short story by H. Allen Smith
- 143 • Needed: Feminine Math • (1961) • essay by Parke Cummings
- 144 • Life in California Department • (1961) • essay by Parke Cummings
- 145 • Cartoon • (1958) • interior artwork by Alfred Frueh
- 146 • Two Extracts • non-genre • (1962) • short fiction by Mark Twain
- 148 • Mathematics for Golfers • (1922) • essay by Stephen Leacock
- 153 • The Mathematician's Nightmare: The Vision of Professor Squarepunt • (1954) • short story by Bertrand Russell
- 159 • Milo and the Mathemagician • (1961) • short story by Norton Juster
- 178 • Cartoon: no caption (The Mathematical Magpie) • (1960) • interior artwork by Saul Steinberg
- 179 • Sixteen Stones • (1955) • short story by Samuel Beckett
- 186 • O'Brien's Table • (1951) • short story by J. L. Synge
- 191 • The Abominable Mr. Gunn • (1955) • short story by Robert Graves
- 196 • Coconuts • (1926) • short story by Ben Ames Williams
- 215 • Euclid and the Bright Boy • (1962) • short story by J. L. Synge
- 219 • The Purse of Fortunatus • (1889) • short story by Lewis Carroll
- 222 • Cartoon: no caption [2] (The Mathematical Magpie) • (1960) • interior artwork by Saul Steinberg
- 223 • The Symbolic Logic of Murder • (1960) • short story by John Reese
- 240 • Cartoon: no caption • (1961) • interior artwork by James Frankfort
- 241 • The Square of the Hypotenuse • (1958) • poem by Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer
- 245 • The Ta Ta • (1962) • poem by Joseph Charles Holbrooke and Sidney H. Sime
- 253 • Apothem • (1959) • essay by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg [as by George Christoph Lichtenberg]
- 254 • Apothem • (1945) • essay by G. Polya
- 254 • Apothem • (1962) • essay by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- 255 • Apothem • (1930) • essay by Winston S. Churchill [as by Winston Churchill]
- 255 • Apothem • (1962) • essay by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [as by Goethe]
- 255 • Apothem • (1945) • essay by George Orwell
- 255 • Apothem • (1962) • essay by Jules Renard
- 255 • Apothem • (1896) • essay by Lewis Carroll
- 256 • Apothem • (1962) • essay by Anonymous
- 256 • Apothem • (1959) • essay by Bill Mortlock
- 256 • Apothem • (1962) • essay by Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
- 256 • Apothem • (1872) • essay by Augustus De Morgan
- 256 • Apothem • (1715) • essay by J. B. Mencken
- 257 • Euler, Diderot, Algebra and God • (1872) • essay by Augustus De Morgan
- 258 • Paradise Lost at Cambridge • (1962) • essay by Thomas Jefferson Hogg
- 258 • With Apologies to Boyal • (1947) • essay by George Gamow
- 259 • Extinction by Subtraction • (1962) • essay by W. W. R. Ball
- 259 • Pi and the Actuary • (1962) • essay by W. W. R. Ball
- 259 • That Mason-Dixon Line • (1962) • essay by Simon Newcomb
- 260 • Mathematics Chez Madame Mariette • (1942) • essay by Elliot Paul
- 261 • The Devil a Mathematician Would Be • (1962) • essay by A. J. Lohwater
- 262 • Three Verses • (1958) • poem by Frederick Winsor
- 262 • Verse • (1951) • poem by Anonymous
- 262 • Verse • (1959) • poem by Iona Opie and Peter Opie
- 263 • Riddle • (1951) • poem by Anonymous
- 263 • Verse • (1958) • poem by Frederick Winsor
- 264 • Three Verses • (1959) • poem by L. A. Graham
- 265 • To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraic Formula • (1962) • poem by J. J. Sylvester
- 266 • from "The Dunciad" • (1728) • poem by Alexander Pope
- 266 • Geometry • (1805) • poem by William Wordsworth
- 266 • Portrait of a Mathematician • (1950) • poem by Christopher Morley
- 269 • Me • (1959) • poem by Hilbert Schenck
- 270 • Cartoon: "Gentlemen, the operation of this complex computer is based upon a very simple counting technique." • interior artwork by Leo Demare
- 271 • Song of the Screw • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- 273 • The Modern Hiawatha • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- 274 • The Loves of the Triangles • (1798) • poem by George Canning and John Hookham Frere
- 276 • The Mathematician in Love • (1874) • poem by W. J. M. Rankine
- 278 • E=mc˛ • (1946) • poem by Morris Bishop
- 278 • Engineer's Yell • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- 279 • Note on Theta, Phi, and Psi • (1935) • poem by Michael Roberts
- 279 • Verse • (1925) • poem by Stephen Barr
- 279 • Verse • (1925) • poem by Dr. William Whewell
- 281 • A Song Against Circles • (1961) • poem by R. P. Lister
- 281 • Wockyjabber • (1960) • poem by Hilbert Schenck [as by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.]
- 282 • Einstein: A Parody in the Manner of Edw-n Markh-m • (1926) • poem by Louis Untermeyer (variant of Einstein by Edw-n Markh-m 1922)
- 283 • Tending to Infinity • (1957) • poem by J. L. Synge
- 283 • The Superlative Degree • (1959) • poem by Ernest Elmo Calkins
- 283 • The Magic Box • (1928) • poem by W. R. Baker
- 284 • The Kiss Precise • (1936) • poem by Frederick Soddy
- 285 • The Kiss Precise (Generalized) • (1937) • poem by Thorold Gossett
- 286 • The Hexlet • (1936) • poem by Frederick Soddy
- 287 • Short Cuts to Success • (1917) • short story by Ronald A. Knox
- 289 • There Was a Young Lady Named Bright • (1912) • poem by A. H. Reginald Buller
- 290 • Sequel to "There Was a Young Lady Named Bright" • (1962) • poem by A. H. Reginald Buller
- 290 • Snip, Snip • (1959) • poem by Hilbert Schenck [as by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.]
- 290 • There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do..." • (1962) • poem by Anonymous (variant of There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do" 1958)
- 291 • Cartoon: "Well! — Back to the old drawing board." • (1955) • interior artwork by Paul Peter Porges
- 292 • A Mathematician Confided • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- 292 • Pun in Orbit • (1962) • poem by Hilbert Schenck [as by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.]
- 292 • The Young Man of Sid. Sussex • (1945) • poem by Arthur C. Hilton
- 293 • A Mathematician Named Klein • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- 294 • The Map of England and the Absolute • (1920) • short story by George Santayana
- 296 • Cupid with an Adding Machine • (1960) • short story by Charles D. Rice
- 298 • The Miniver Problem • (1959) • essay by L. A. Graham and Jan Struther
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