«The Mathematical Magpie»
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антология
Язык издания: английский
Составитель: Clifton Fadiman
Copernicus, 1997 г. (май)
ISBN: 0-387-94950-X
Тип обложки:
мягкая
Страниц: 318
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Описание:
An anthology of stories, verses and essays about mathematic.
Cover art by Ilya Bolotowsky.
Содержание:
- Clifton Fadiman. Introduction (статья)
- I. A SET OF IMAGINARIES
- Isaac Asimov. The Feeling of Power (рассказ)
- Robert M. Coates. The Law (рассказ)
- Miles John Breuer. The Appendix and the Spectacles (рассказ)
- William Hazlett Upson. Paul Bunyan Versus the Conveyor Belt (рассказ)
- Arthur C. Clarke. The Pacifist (рассказ)
- H. Nearing, Jr. The Hermeneutical Doughnut (рассказ)
- Mark Clifton. Star, Bright (рассказ)
- James Blish. FYI (рассказ)
- Richard Hughes. The Vanishing Man (рассказ)
- Arthur C. Clarke. The Nine Billion Names of God (рассказ)
- II. COMIC SECTIONS
- Raymond Queneau. Three Mathematical Diversions (отрывок)
- Corey Ford. The Wonderful World of Figures (эссе)
- Stephen Butler Leacock. A, B and C—The Human Element in Mathematics (эссе)
- Max Beerbohm. A Note on the Einstein Theory (эссе)
- Harry Allen Smith. The Achievement of H.T. Wensel (микрорассказ)
- Parke Cummings. Needed: Feminine Math (эссе)
- Parke Cummings. Life in California Department (эссе)
- Mark Twain. Two Extracts (два отрывка из неустановленных произведений)
- Stephen Butler Leacock. Mathematics for Golfers (эссе)
- Bertrand Russell. The Mathematician's Nightmare: The Vision of Professor Squarepunt (рассказ)
- Norton Juster. Milo and the Mathemagician (отрывок)
- III. IRREGULAR FIGURES
- Samuel Beckett. Sixteen Stones (отрывок)
- J. L. Synge. O'Brien's Table (рассказ)
- Robert Graves. The Abominable Mr. Gunn (рассказ)
- Ben Ames Williams. Coconuts (рассказ)
- J. L. Synge. Euclid and the Bright Boy (рассказ)
- Lewis Carroll. The Purse of Fortunatus (рассказ)
- John Reese. The Symbolic Logic of Murder (рассказ)
- IV. SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTIONS
- Johnny Mercer. The Square of the Hypotenuse (стихотворение)
- Joseph Charles Holbrooke and Sidney H. Sime. The Ta Ta (ноты)
- V. DIVIDENDS AND REMAINDERS
- Apothems (подборка цитат разных авторов)
- A Susset or Anecpotes (отрывки из книг и анекдоты разных авторов)
- A Littte Nursery Mathematics
- Iona Opie, Peter Opie. «Make three-fourths of a cross...» (стихотворение)
- Frederick Winsor. «Three jolly sailors from Blaydon-on-Tyne...» (стихотворение)
- L. A. Graham. «A diller, a dollar...» (стихотворение)
- A Quadrinomial of Poems
- J. J. Sylvester. To a Missing Member of a Family Group of Terms in an Algebraic Formula (стихотворение)
- Christopher Morley. Portrait of a Mathematician (стихотворение)
- Alexander Pope. The Dunciad (отрывок)
- William Wordsworth. Geometry (стихотворение)
- Surd and Absurd
- Hilbert Schenck. Me (стихотворение)
- Song of the Screw (анонимное стихотворение)
- The Modern Hiawatha (анонимное стихотворение)
- George Canning, John Hookham Frere. The Loves of the Triangles (стихотворение)
- W. J. M. Rankine. The Mathematician in Love (стихотворение)
- Engineer's Yell (анонимное стихотворение)
- Morris Bishop. E=mc² (стихотворение)
- William Whewell. «Youths who would senior wranglers be...» (стихотворение)
- Michael Roberts. Note on Theta, Phi, and Psi (стихотворение)
- Stephen Barr. «The answer is, said Dr. North...» (стихотворение)
- Hilbert Schenck. Wockyjabber (стихотворение)
- R. P. Lister. A Song Against Circles (стихотворение)
- Louis Untermeyer. Einstein by Edw-n Markh-m (стихотворение)
- W. R. Baker. The Magic Box (стихотворение)
- Ernest Elmo Calkins. The Superlative Degree (стихотворение)
- J. L. Synge. Tending to Infinity (стихотворение)
- Frederick Soddy. The Kiss Precise (стихотворение)
- Thorold Gossett. The Kiss Precise (Generalized) (стихотворение)
- Frederick Soddy. The Hexlet (стихотворение)
- Ronald Arbuthnott Knox. Short Cuts to Success (стихотворение)
- A Group of Limericks
- Arthur Henry Reginald Buller. There Was a Young Lady Named Bright (стихотворение)
- Hilbert Schenck. Snip, Snip (стихотворение)
- There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do" (анонимное стихотворение)
- Sequel to "There Was a Young Lady Named Bright" (анонимное стихотворение)
- A Mathematician Confided (анонимное стихотворение)
- Hilbert Schenck. Pun in Orbit (стихотворение)
- The Young Man of Sid. Sussex (анонимное стихотворение)
- A Mathematician Named Klein (анонимное стихотворение)
- Three Random Points
- George Santayana. The Map of England and the Absolute (рассказ)
- Charles D. Rice. Cupid with an Adding Machine (рассказ)
- L. A. Graham, Jan Struther. The Miniver Problem (эссе)
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