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Anthology Title:
The Mathematical Magpie • (1962) • anthology by Clifton Fadiman
Contents (view Concise Listing)
- The Nine Billion Names of God • (1953) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- The Feeling of Power • (1958) • short story by Isaac Asimov
- The Appendix and the Spectacles • (1928) • short story by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
- Star, Bright • (1952) • novelette by Mark Clifton
- The Pacifist • [Tales from the White Hart] • (1956) • short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- F Y I • (1953) • short story by James Blish
- Wockyjabber • (1960) • poem by Hilbert Schenck [as by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.]
- Cupid with an Adding Machine • (1960) • short story by Charles D. Rice
- The Map of England and the Absolute • (1920) • short story by George Santayana
- Short Cuts to Success • (1917) • short story by Ronald A. Knox
- The Kiss Precise • (1936) • poem by Frederick Soddy
- The Magic Box • (1928) • poem by W. R. Baker
- 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)
- The Symbolic Logic of Murder • (1960) • short story by John Reese
- The Purse of Fortunatus • (1889) • short story by Lewis Carroll
- Euclid and the Bright Boy • (1962) • short story by J. L. Synge
- Coconuts • (1926) • short story by Ben Ames Williams
- The Abominable Mr. Gunn • (1955) • short story by Robert Graves
- O'Brien's Table • (1951) • short story by J. L. Synge
- Sixteen Stones • (1955) • short story by Samuel Beckett
- Milo and the Mathemagician • (1961) • short story by Norton Juster
- The Mathematician's Nightmare: The Vision of Professor Squarepunt • (1954) • short story by Bertrand Russell
- Two Extracts • non-genre • (1962) • short fiction by Mark Twain
- The Achievement of H.T. Wensel • (1960) • short story by H. Allen Smith
- A Note on the Einstein Theory • non-genre • (1923) • short story by Max Beerbohm
- The Vanishing Man • (1926) • short story by Richard Hughes
- The Hermeneutical Doughnut • [C. P. Ransom • 13] • (1954) • short story by H. Nearing, Jr.
- Paul Bunyan Versus the Conveyor Belt • (1949) • short story by William Hazlett Upson
- The Law • (1947) • short story by Robert M. Coates
- Me • (1959) • poem by Hilbert Schenck
- Snip, Snip • (1959) • poem by Hilbert Schenck [as by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.]
- There Was a Young Lady Named Bright • (1912) • poem by A. H. Reginald Buller
- A Mathematician Named Klein • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- A Mathematician Confided • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- Pun in Orbit • (1962) • poem by Hilbert Schenck [as by Hilbert Schenck, Jr.]
- The Young Man of Sid. Sussex • (1945) • poem by Arthur C. Hilton
- There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do..." • (1962) • poem by Anonymous (variant of There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do" 1958)
- Sequel to "There Was a Young Lady Named Bright" • (1962) • poem by A. H. Reginald Buller
- The Hexlet • (1936) • poem by Frederick Soddy
- The Kiss Precise (Generalized) • (1937) • poem by Thorold Gossett
- The Superlative Degree • (1959) • poem by Ernest Elmo Calkins
- Tending to Infinity • (1957) • poem by J. L. Synge
- A Song Against Circles • (1961) • poem by R. P. Lister
- Note on Theta, Phi, and Psi • (1935) • poem by Michael Roberts
- Verse • (1925) • poem by Stephen Barr
- Verse • (1925) • poem by Dr. William Whewell
- Engineer's Yell • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- E=mc˛ • (1946) • poem by Morris Bishop
- The Mathematician in Love • (1874) • poem by W. J. M. Rankine
- The Loves of the Triangles • (1798) • poem by George Canning and John Hookham Frere
- The Modern Hiawatha • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- Song of the Screw • (1962) • poem by Anonymous
- Geometry • (1805) • poem by William Wordsworth
- from "The Dunciad" • (1728) • poem by Alexander Pope
- Portrait of a Mathematician • (1950) • poem by Christopher Morley
- To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraic Formula • (1962) • poem by J. J. Sylvester
- Three Verses • (1959) • poem by L. A. Graham
- Three Verses • (1958) • poem by Frederick Winsor
- Riddle • (1951) • poem by Anonymous
- Verse • (1958) • poem by Frederick Winsor
- Verse • (1951) • poem by Anonymous
- The Miniver Problem • (1959) • essay by L. A. Graham and Jan Struther
- The Devil a Mathematician Would Be • (1962) • essay by A. J. Lohwater
- Mathematics Chez Madame Mariette • (1942) • essay by Elliot Paul
- That Mason-Dixon Line • (1962) • essay by Simon Newcomb
- Pi and the Actuary • (1962) • essay by W. W. R. Ball
- Extinction by Subtraction • (1962) • essay by W. W. R. Ball
- With Apologies to Boyal • (1947) • essay by George Gamow
- Paradise Lost at Cambridge • (1962) • essay by Thomas Jefferson Hogg
- Euler, Diderot, Algebra and God • (1872) • essay by Augustus De Morgan
- Apothem • (1962) • essay by Anonymous
- Apothem • (1959) • essay by Bill Mortlock
- Apothem • (1962) • essay by Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Apothem • (1872) • essay by Augustus De Morgan
- Apothem • (1715) • essay by J. B. Mencken
- Apothem • (1930) • essay by Winston S. Churchill [as by Winston Churchill]
- Apothem • (1962) • essay by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [as by Goethe]
- Apothem • (1945) • essay by George Orwell
- Apothem • (1962) • essay by Jules Renard
- Apothem • (1896) • essay by Lewis Carroll
- Apothem • (1945) • essay by G. Polya
- Apothem • (1962) • essay by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
- Apothem • (1959) • essay by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg [as by George Christoph Lichtenberg]
- The Ta Ta • (1962) • poem by Joseph Charles Holbrooke and Sidney H. Sime
- The Ta Ta • (1962) • essay by Joseph Charles Holbrooke
- The Square of the Hypotenuse • (1958) • poem by Saul Chaplin and Johnny Mercer
- The Square of the Hypotenuse • (1958) • essay by Saul Chaplin
- Mathematics for Golfers • (1922) • essay by Stephen Leacock
- Life in California Department • (1961) • essay by Parke Cummings
- Needed: Feminine Math • (1961) • essay by Parke Cummings
- A, B and C—The Human Element in Mathematics • (1910) • short story by Stephen Leacock
- The Wonderful World of Figures • (1961) • essay by Corey Ford
- Three Mathematical Diversions • (1958) • essay by Raymond Queneau
- Introduction (The Mathematical Magpie) • (1962) • essay by Clifton Fadiman
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