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The mathematical magpie : being more stories, mainly transcendental, plus subsets of essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, epigrams, and other pime oddments and diversions, rational or irrational, all derived from the infinite domain of mathematics / compiled and edited by Clifton Fadiman.
- Title
- The mathematical magpie : being more stories, mainly transcendental, plus subsets of essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, epigrams, and other pime oddments and diversions, rational or irrational, all derived from the infinite domain of mathematics / compiled and edited by Clifton Fadiman.
- Publication
- New York : Copernicus, 1997.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999
- Description
- xviii, 303 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Literary collections
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1962.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Cartoon / Abner Dean -- Cartoon / Alan Dunn -- Feeling of Power / Isaac Asimov -- Law / Robert M. Coates -- Appendix and the Spectacles / Miles J. Breuer -- Paul Bunyan versus The Conveyor Belt / William Hazlett Upson -- Pacifist / Arthur C. Clarke -- Hermeneutical Doughnut / H. Nearing, Jr. -- Star, Bright / Mark Clifton -- FYI / James Blish -- Vanishing Man / Richard Hughes -- Nine Billion Names of God / Arthur C. Clarke -- Three Mathematical Diversions / Raymond Queneau. 1. Exercise in Style: Mathematical. 2. On the Aerodynamic Properties of Addition. 3. Geometrical Disappearance of Dino -- Wonderful World of Figures / Corey Ford
- ISBN
- 038794950X (softcover : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97001187^
- OCLC
- 36407659
- SCSB-9994293
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library