|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
 | | |
"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions."
- Christopher Dawson
| | | |
|
| | Imaginary Numbers:
An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings
| |
| | by Frucht, William Frucht (Editor)
|
|
|
ZIN Product Number: 10127438
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 38 | | Price Range: | | $0.04 - 0.05 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 11 | | Price Range: | | $0.02 - 0.04 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 53 | | Price Range: | | $0.05 - 0.04 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 74 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 26 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 38 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
ISBN: 0471332445
Release Date: Jan 9, 1999
| |  | | | From The Publisher
"William Frucht's wide-ranging compilation of mathematically flavored fiction and poetry is humorous, thought-provoking, and profoundly entertaining."--John Allen Paulos, author of Once Upon a Number
This delightful anthology--the first such collection since the publication of Clifton Fadiman's bestselling Fantasia Mathematica and The Mathematical Magpie--explores the many ways in which creative writers have investigated mathematical themes, from the marvels of infinity and the peculiarities of spacetime to artificial intelligence, black holes, and quantum weirdness.
* Features works by Italo Calvino, Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges, William Gibson, J. G. Ballard, James Dickey, Carl Sandburg, and Alan Lightman * Reintroduces lesser-known but seminal works such as science-fiction writer Connie Willis's cult classic "The Schwartzchild Radius"
William Frucht (Danbury, CT) is the Senior Editor of trade science books for Basic Books.
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Be the first to rate this book! Number of Reviews: 0
| | | |  | | | Italo Calvino: The Form of Space.
Rudy Rucker: A New Golden Age.
Lewis Carroll: A Serpent with Corners (from A Tangled Tale).
J. A. Lindon: A Positive Reminder.
Raymond Smullyan: How Kazir Won His Wife.
Alan Lightman: 11 May 1905 (from Einstein's Dreams).
Roald Hoffman: Why Does Disorder Increase in the Same Direction of Time as That in Which the Universe Expands?
Philip K. Dick: The Golden Man.
Hilbert Schenck: The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck.
Abner Shimony: Resolution of the Paradox: A Philosophical Puppet Play.
Piet Hein: Parallelism.
Douglas Hofstadter Prelude...(from Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid).
Stanislaw Lem: The Third Sally, or The Dragons of Probability (from The Seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius).
Edwin Abbott Abbott: Concerning Irregular Figures (from Flatland).
Andrew Marvell: The Definition of Love.
A. K. Dewdney: On Fiddib Har (from The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World).
Martin Gardner: The Church of the Fourth Dimension.
Stanislaw Lem: The Extraordinary Hotel, or the Thousand and First Journey of Ion the Quiet.
Anonymous: Ten Weary, Footsore Travelers.
Racter: From The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed.
William Gibson: Burning Chrome.
Fritz Leiber: Gonna Roll the Bones.
Wislawa Szymborska: A Word on Statistics.
Tommaso Landolfi: Giovanni and His Wife.
Joe Haldeman: The Private War of Private Jacob.
Jorge Luis Borges: The Library of Babel.
Christian Bok: Enantiomorphosis (A Natural History of Mirrors).
Connie Willis:Schwarzschild Radius.
Siv Cedering: Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848).
Yevgeny Zamyatin: From We.
J. G. Ballard: The Garden of Time.
Acknowledgments.
Permission Acknowledgments.
| |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Science > Mathematics > General
All Topics > Science > Mathematics > Reference
| | | | These specific items are very similiar:
Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings
| | | | | | People like you also bought:
The Mathematical Magpie, by Clifton Fadiman
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife
E, by Eli Maor
Number, by Midhat J. Gazale
Gnomon: From Pharaoh to Fractals, by Midhat J. Gazale
Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales, by Theoni Pappas
The World's Most Famous Math Problem: The Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem and Other Mathematical Mysteries, by Marilyn Mach Vos Savant
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
More Joy of Mathematics: Exploring Mathematics All around You, by Theoni Pappas
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Einstein's Dreams, by Alan P. Lightman
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott
History of the Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and the Physical Universe, by Larry Burkett
| | | | | | Keywords
Mathematics, Literary collections, Special Subjects In Literature, Reference, Mathematics, Mathematics, Literary collections, Special Subjects In Literature, Reference, Mathematics, Literary collections, Special Subjects In Literature, Reference
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
