Fantasia Mathematica
| Author | Clifton Fadiman |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 298 |
Fantasia Mathematica is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by Clifton Fadiman; a companion volume was later published as The Mathematical Magpie. The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, and Martin Gardner.
Contents
- "Introduction" by Clifton Fadiman
Odd Numbers
- "Young Archimedes" by Aldous Huxley
- "Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst" by Arthur Koestler
- "Mother and the Decimal Point" by Richard Llewellyn
- "Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics" by James Branch Cabell
- "Peter Learns Arithmetic" by H. G. Wells
- "Socrates and the Slave" by Plato
- "The Death of Archimedes" by Karel Čapek
Imaginaries
- "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges
- "-And He Built a Crooked House" by Robert A. Heinlein
- "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney
- "No-Sided Professor" by Martin Gardner
- "Superiority" by Arthur C. Clarke
- "The Mathematical Voodoo" by H. Nearing, Jr.
- "Expedition" by Fredric Brown
- "The Captured Cross-Section" by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
- "A. Botts and the Moebius Strip" by William Hazlett Upson
- "God and the Machine" by Nigel Balchin
- "The Tachypomp" by Edward Page Mitchell
- "The Island of Five Colors" by Martin Gardner
- "The Last Magician" by Bruce Elliott
- "A Subway Named Moebius" by A. J. Deutsch
- "The Universal Library" by Kurd Lasswitz
- "Postscript to "The Universal Library"" by Willy Ley
- "John Jones's Dollar" by Harry Stephen Keeler
Fractions
- "A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens" by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
- "The Unfortunate Topologst" by Cyril Kornbluth
- "There Once Was a Breathy Baboon" by Sir Arthur Eddington
- "Yet What Are All..." by Lewis Carroll
- "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" by Ralph Barton
- "Mathematical Love" by Andrew Marvell
- "The Circle" by Christopher Morley
- "The Circle and the Square" by Thomas Dekker
- "Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- "Euclid" by Vachel Lindsay
- "To Think That Two and Two Are Four" by A. E. Housman
- "The Uses of Mathematics" by Samuel Butler
- "Arithmetic" by Carl Sandburg
- "Threes (To Be Sung By Niels Bohr)" by John Atherton
- "Plane Geometry" by Emma Rounds
- "He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift" by Herbert Dingle
- "Fearsome Fable" by Bruce Elliott
- "Bertrand Russell's Dream" by G. H. Hardy
- "For All Practical Purposes" by C. Stanley Ogilvy
- "Eternity: A Nightmare" by Lewis Carroll
- "An Infinity of Guests" by George Gamow
- "Inifinity" by Sire Arthur Eddington
- "No Power on Earth" by William Whewell
- "(x + 1)" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "The Receptive Bosom" by Edward Shanks
- "Leinbach's Proof" by Arthur Schnitzler
- "Problem from The New Yorker: "Talk of the Town""