Imaginary numbers :
Imaginary numbers : an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings /
edited by William Frucht.
- New York : J. Wiley, 1999.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 327 pages)
The form of space / A new golden age / A serpent with corners (from A tangled tale) / A positive reminder / How Kazir won his wife / 11 May 1905 (from Einstein's dreams) / Why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? / The golden man / The morphology of the Kirkham wreck / Resolution of the paradox: a philosophical puppet play / Parallelism / Prelude ... (from G�odel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid) / The third Sally, or the dragons of probability (from The seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius) / Concerning irregular figures (from Flatland) / The definition of love / On Fiddib Har (from The planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world) / The church of the fourth dimension / The extraordinary hotel, or the thousand and first journey of Ion the Quiet / Ten weary, footsore travelers / from The policeman's beard is half-constructed / Burning chrome / Gonna roll the bones / A word on statistics / Giovanni and his wife / The private war on Private Jacob / The library of Babel / Enantiomorphosis (A natural history of mirrors) / Schwarzschild radius / Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) / from We / The garden of time / Italo Calvino -- Rudy Rucker -- Lewis Carroll -- J.A. Lindon -- Raymond Smullyan -- Alan Lightman -- Roald Hoffman -- Philip K. Dick -- Hilbert Schenck -- Abner Shimony -- Piet Hein -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Stanislaw Lem -- Edwin Abbott Abbott -- Andrew Marvell -- A.K. Dewdney -- Martin Gardner -- Stanislaw Lem -- Anonymous -- Racter -- William Gibson -- Fritz Leiber -- Wislawa Szymborska -- Tommaso Landolfi -- Joe Haldeman -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Christian B�ok -- Connie Willis -- Siv Cedering -- Yevgeny Zamyatin -- J.G. Ballard.
0585282315 9780585282312
Mathematics--Literary collections.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
REFERENCE--Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing.
Mathematics.
Wiskunde.
Electronic books.
Literary collections.
PN6071.M3 / I47 1999eb
808.8/0356
The form of space / A new golden age / A serpent with corners (from A tangled tale) / A positive reminder / How Kazir won his wife / 11 May 1905 (from Einstein's dreams) / Why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? / The golden man / The morphology of the Kirkham wreck / Resolution of the paradox: a philosophical puppet play / Parallelism / Prelude ... (from G�odel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid) / The third Sally, or the dragons of probability (from The seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius) / Concerning irregular figures (from Flatland) / The definition of love / On Fiddib Har (from The planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world) / The church of the fourth dimension / The extraordinary hotel, or the thousand and first journey of Ion the Quiet / Ten weary, footsore travelers / from The policeman's beard is half-constructed / Burning chrome / Gonna roll the bones / A word on statistics / Giovanni and his wife / The private war on Private Jacob / The library of Babel / Enantiomorphosis (A natural history of mirrors) / Schwarzschild radius / Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) / from We / The garden of time / Italo Calvino -- Rudy Rucker -- Lewis Carroll -- J.A. Lindon -- Raymond Smullyan -- Alan Lightman -- Roald Hoffman -- Philip K. Dick -- Hilbert Schenck -- Abner Shimony -- Piet Hein -- Douglas Hofstadter -- Stanislaw Lem -- Edwin Abbott Abbott -- Andrew Marvell -- A.K. Dewdney -- Martin Gardner -- Stanislaw Lem -- Anonymous -- Racter -- William Gibson -- Fritz Leiber -- Wislawa Szymborska -- Tommaso Landolfi -- Joe Haldeman -- Jorge Luis Borges -- Christian B�ok -- Connie Willis -- Siv Cedering -- Yevgeny Zamyatin -- J.G. Ballard.
0585282315 9780585282312
Mathematics--Literary collections.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Rhetoric.
REFERENCE--Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES--Composition & Creative Writing.
Mathematics.
Wiskunde.
Electronic books.
Literary collections.
PN6071.M3 / I47 1999eb
808.8/0356
