{{short description|Book by Clifton Fadiman}} {{Infobox book | name = Fantasia Mathematica | image = File:FantasiaMathematica.jpg | caption = First edition | author = Clifton Fadiman | country = United States | language = English | genre = Anthology | publisher = Simon & Schuster | release_date = 1958 | media_type = Print (Hardcover and Paperback) | pages = 298 }}
'''''Fantasia Mathematica''''' <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UK8UJLpA3SgC&pg=PP1 |title=Fantasia Mathematica – Google Books |isbn=9780387949314 |accessdate=August 22, 2011|last1=Fadiman |first1=Clifton |date=April 1997 }}</ref> is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by Clifton Fadiman. A companion volume was published as ''The Mathematical Magpie'' (1962). 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 *"The 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 Topologist" 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 *"∞" by Sir 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"" *"A Letter to Tennyson from ''Mathematical Gazette''" *"A Fable from ''Mathematical Gazette''" *"There Was a Young Man from Trinity" by Anonymous *"There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do"" by Anonymous *"Relativity" by Anonymous *"There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk" by Anonymous
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Category:1958 anthologies Category:Mathematics fiction books Category:Fiction anthologies