# Fantasia Mathematica > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fantasia_Mathematica > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Fantasia_Mathematica.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_Mathematica > Source revision: 1169734160 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|Book by Clifton Fadiman}} {{Infobox book | name = Fantasia Mathematica | image = File:FantasiaMathematica.jpg | caption = First edition | author = [Clifton Fadiman](/source/Clifton_Fadiman) | country = United States | language = English | genre = [Anthology](/source/Anthology) | publisher = [Simon & Schuster](/source/Simon_%26_Schuster) | release_date = 1958 | media_type = Print ([Hardcover](/source/Hardcover) and [Paperback](/source/Paperback)) | pages = 298 }} '''''Fantasia Mathematica''''' {{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 }} is an [anthology](/source/anthology) published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by [Clifton Fadiman](/source/Clifton_Fadiman). A companion volume was published as ''[The Mathematical Magpie](/source/The_Mathematical_Magpie)'' (1962). The volume contains writing by authors including [Robert Heinlein](/source/Robert_Heinlein), [Aldous Huxley](/source/Aldous_Huxley), [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells), and [Martin Gardner](/source/Martin_Gardner). ==Contents== *"Introduction" by Clifton Fadiman ===Odd numbers=== *"Young [Archimedes](/source/Archimedes)" by [Aldous Huxley](/source/Aldous_Huxley) *"[Pythagoras](/source/Pythagoras) and the Psychoanalyst" by [Arthur Koestler](/source/Arthur_Koestler) *"Mother and the Decimal Point" by [Richard Llewellyn](/source/Richard_Llewellyn) *"Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics" by [James Branch Cabell](/source/James_Branch_Cabell) *"Peter Learns Arithmetic" by [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells) *"[Socrates](/source/Socrates) and the Slave" by [Plato](/source/Plato) *"The Death of Archimedes" by [Karel Čapek](/source/Karel_%C4%8Capek) ===Imaginaries=== *"The Devil and Simon Flagg" by [Arthur Porges](/source/Arthur_Porges) *"[—And He Built a Crooked House](/source/%E2%80%94And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House)" by [Robert A. Heinlein](/source/Robert_A._Heinlein) *"Inflexible Logic" by [Russell Maloney](/source/Russell_Maloney) *"The No-Sided Professor" by [Martin Gardner](/source/Martin_Gardner) *"[Superiority](/source/Superiority_(short_story))" by [Arthur C. Clarke](/source/Arthur_C._Clarke) *"The Mathematical Voodoo" by [H. Nearing, Jr.](/source/Homer_Nearing) *"Expedition" by [Fredric Brown](/source/Fredric_Brown) *"The Captured Cross-Section" by [Miles J. Breuer](/source/Miles_J._Breuer), M.D. *"A. Botts and the [Moebius Strip](/source/Moebius_Strip)" by [William Hazlett Upson](/source/William_Hazlett_Upson) *"God and the Machine" by [Nigel Balchin](/source/Nigel_Balchin) *"[The Tachypomp](/source/The_Tachypomp)" by [Edward Page Mitchell](/source/Edward_Page_Mitchell) *"The Island of Five Colors" by [Martin Gardner](/source/Martin_Gardner) *"The Last Magician" by [Bruce Elliott](/source/Bruce_Elliott_(writer)) *"[A Subway Named Moebius](/source/A_Subway_Named_Mobius)" by [A. J. Deutsch](/source/A._J._Deutsch) *"The Universal Library" by [Kurd Lasswitz](/source/Kurd_Lasswitz) *"Postscript to "The Universal Library"" by [Willy Ley](/source/Willy_Ley) *"John Jones's Dollar" by [Harry Stephen Keeler](/source/Harry_Stephen_Keeler) ===Fractions=== *"A New Ballad of [Sir Patrick Spens](/source/Sir_Patrick_Spens)" by [Arthur T. Quiller-Couch](/source/Arthur_Quiller-Couch) *"The Unfortunate [Topologist](/source/Topologist)" by [Cyril Kornbluth](/source/Cyril_Kornbluth) *"There Once Was a Breathy Baboon" by Sir [Arthur Eddington](/source/Arthur_Eddington) *"Yet What Are All..." by [Lewis Carroll](/source/Lewis_Carroll) *"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" by [Ralph Barton](/source/Ralph_Barton) *"Mathematical Love" by [Andrew Marvell](/source/Andrew_Marvell) *"The Circle" by [Christopher Morley](/source/Christopher_Morley) *"The Circle and the Square" by [Thomas Dekker](/source/Thomas_Dekker_(writer)) *"[Euclid](/source/Euclid) Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" by [Edna St. Vincent Millay](/source/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay) *"Euclid" by [Vachel Lindsay](/source/Vachel_Lindsay) *"To Think That Two and Two Are Four" by [A. E. Housman](/source/A._E._Housman) *"The Uses of Mathematics" by [Samuel Butler](/source/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)) *"Arithmetic" by [Carl Sandburg](/source/Carl_Sandburg) *"Threes (To Be Sung By [Niels Bohr](/source/Niels_Bohr))" by John Atherton *"Plane Geometry" by [Emma Rounds](/source/Emma_Rounds) *"He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift" by [Herbert Dingle](/source/Herbert_Dingle) *"Fearsome Fable" by [Bruce Elliott](/source/Bruce_Elliott_(writer)) *"[Bertrand Russell](/source/Bertrand_Russell)'s Dream" by [G. H. Hardy](/source/G._H._Hardy) *"For All Practical Purposes" by [C. Stanley Ogilvy](/source/C._Stanley_Ogilvy) *"Eternity: A Nightmare" by [Lewis Carroll](/source/Lewis_Carroll) *"An Infinity of Guests" by [George Gamow](/source/George_Gamow) *"[∞](/source/Infinity)" by Sir [Arthur Eddington](/source/Arthur_Eddington) *"No Power on Earth" by [William Whewell](/source/William_Whewell) *"(x + 1)" by [Edgar Allan Poe](/source/Edgar_Allan_Poe) *"The Receptive Bosom" by [Edward Shanks](/source/Edward_Shanks) *"Leinbach's Proof" by [Arthur Schnitzler](/source/Arthur_Schnitzler) *"Problem from ''[The New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)'': "Talk of the Town"" *"A Letter to Tennyson from ''[Mathematical Gazette](/source/Mathematical_Gazette)''" *"A Fable from ''Mathematical Gazette''" *"There Was a Young Man from Trinity" by [Anonymous](/source/Anonymous_work) *"There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do"" by Anonymous *"Relativity" by Anonymous *"There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk" by Anonymous == References == {{Reflist}} Category:1958 anthologies Category:Mathematics fiction books Category:Fiction anthologies --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Fantasia Mathematica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_Mathematica) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_Mathematica?action=history)). 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