Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous Mathematical Stories, Diversions, Poems, and Musings
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William Frucht is a senior editor at Basic Books and the coauthor, with Larry Siever, of The New View of Self.
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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.
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.
