| Description |
xiv, 327 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. The Form of Space / Italo Calvino -- 2. A New Golden Age / Rudy Rucker -- 3. A Serpent with Corners (from A Tangled Tale) / Lewis Carroll -- 4. A Positive Reminder / J. A. Lindon -- 5. How Kazir Won His Wife / Raymond Smullyan -- 6. 11 May 1905 (from Einstein's Dreams) / Alan Lightman -- 7. Why Does Disorder Increase in the Same Direction of Time as That in Which the Universe Expands? / Roald Hoffman -- 8. The Golden Man / Philip K. Dick -- 9. The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck / Hilbert Schenck -- 10. Resolution of the Paradox: A Philosophical Puppet Play / Abner Shimony -- 11. Parallelism / Piet Hein -- 12. Prelude ... (from Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid) / Douglas Hofstadter -- 13. The Third Sally, or The Dragons of Probability (from The Seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius) / Stanislaw Lem -- 14. Concerning Irregular Figures (from Flatland) / Edwin Abbott Abbott -- 15. The Definition of Love / Andrew Marvell |
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16. On Fiddib Har (from The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World) / A. K. Dewdney -- 17. The Church of the Fourth Dimension / Martin Gardner -- 18. The Extraordinary Hotel, or the Thousand and First Journey of Ion the Quiet / Stanislaw Lem -- 19. Ten Weary, Footsore Travelers / Anonymous -- 20. From The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed / Racter -- 21. Burning Chrome / William Gibson -- 22. Gonna Roll the Bones / Fritz Leiber -- 23. A Word on Statistics / Wislawa Szymborska -- 24. Giovanni and His Wife / Tommaso Landolfi -- 25. The Private War of Private Jacob / Joe Haldeman -- 26. The Library of Babel / Jorge Luis Borges -- 27. Enantiomorphosis (A Natural History of Mirrors) / Christian Bok -- 28. Schwarzschild Radius / Connie Willis -- 29. Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) / Siv Cedering -- 30. From We / Yevgeny Zamyatin -- 31. The Garden of Time / J. G. Ballard |
| Summary |
"Enter the wildly inventive world of Imaginary Numbers, in which a marvelous roster of acclaimed writers conjure up magical happenings, fantastic visions, and brainteasing puzzles, all based in some way on mathematical ideas. This anthology offers a connoisseur's selection of a special brand of creative writing in which the authors play with a vast array of mathematical notions - from the marvels of infinity to the peculiarities of space-time to quantum weirdness, the relativity of time, and the curious attraction of black holes."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Literary collections.
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| Genre/Form |
Literary collections.
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Literature.
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Literature.
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| Author |
Frucht, William.
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| LC no. |
99051368 |
| ISBN |
0471332445 alkaline paper |
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