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Alternative OCLC# 223163438
ISBN 038794950X (softcover ; acid-free paper)
9780387949505 (softcover ; acid-free paper)
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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.
Published New York : Copernicus, 1997.


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In honor of Julie D. Simon on the occasion of her promotion to Principal Lecturer in 2023.
Donated in honor of Father Raymond A. Roesch, S.M.
Description xviii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject Mathematics -- Literary collections.
Mathematics.
Faculty Milestone Recognition Program
Mathematics
Mathematics
Genre Literature.
Literary collections.
Literature.
Note Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1962.
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 -- A,B, and C - the human element in mathematics / Stephen Leacock -- Cartoon / Johnny Hart -- A note on the Einstein theory / Max Beerbohm -- The achievement of H.T Wensel / H. Allen Smith -- Needed: Feminine math / Parke Cummings -- Cartoon / Alfred Frueh -- Two extracts / Mark Twain -- The mathematician's nightmare / Bertrand Russell -- Milo and mathemagician Norton Juster -- Cartoon Saul Steinberg -- Sixteen stones / Samuel Beckett -- O'Brien's table / J.L. Synge -- The abominable Mr. Gunn / Robert Graves -- Coconuts / Ben Ames Williams -- Euclid and the bright boy / J.L. Synge -- The purse of fortunatus / Lewis Carroll -- Cartoon / Saul Steinberg -- The symbolic logic of murder / John Reese -- Cartoon / James Frankfort -- The square of the hypotenuse -- The ta ta -- Cartoon / Saul Steinberg -- A subset of anecdotes -- A little nursery mathematics -- A quadrinomial of poems -- Surd and Absurd -- Cartoon / Leo Demaŕe -- A group of limericks -- Cartoons / Paul Peter Porǵes -- Three random points.
Additional Name Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
Additional Format Online version: Mathematical magpie. New York : Copernicus, 1997 (OCoLC)707691479
OCLC # 36407659
Alternative OCLC# 223163438
ISBN 038794950X (softcover ; acid-free paper)
9780387949505 (softcover ; acid-free paper)