Imaginary numbers : an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings / (Record no. 5245)
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| fixed length control field | 02452cam a2200205 a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0471332445 (alk. paper) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | CUS |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 808.890356 |
| Item number | FRU/I |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Imaginary numbers : an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | edited by William Frucht. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | J. Wiley, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1999. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xiv, 327 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 23 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The form of space / Italo Calvino -- A new golden age / Rudy Rucker -- A serpent with corners (from A tangled tale) / Lewis Carroll -- A positive reminder / J.A. Lindon -- How Kazir won his wife / Raymond Smullyan -- 11 May 1905 (from Einstein's dreams) / Alan Lightman -- Why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? / Roald Hoffman -- The golden man / Philip K. Dick -- The morphology of the Kirkham wreck / Hilbert Schenck --<br/>Resolution of the paradox: a philosophical puppet play / Abner Shimony -- Parallelism / Piet Hein -- Prelude ... (from Gödel, Escher, Bach: an eternal golden braid) / Douglas Hofstadter -- The third Sally, or the dragons of probability (from The seven Sallies of Trurl and Klapaucius) / Stanislaw Lem -- Concerning irregular figures (from Flatland) / Edwin Abbott Abbott -- The definition of love / Andrew Marvell -- On Fiddib Har (from The planiverse: computer contact with a two-dimensional world) / A.K. Dewdney -- The church of the fourth dimension / Martin Gardner -- The extraordinary hotel, or the thousand and first journey of Ion the Quiet / Stanislaw Lem -- Ten weary, footsore travelers / Anonymous -- from The policeman's beard is half-constructed / Racter -- Burning chrome / William Gibson -- Gonna roll the bones / Fritz Leiber -- A word on statistics / Wislawa Szymborska -- Giovanni and his wife / Tommaso Landolfi -- The private war on Private Jacob / Joe Haldeman -- The library of Babel / Jorge Luis Borges -- Enantiomorphosis (A natural history of mirrors) / Christian Bök -- Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis -- Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) / Siv Cedering -- from We / Yevgeny Zamyatin -- The garden of time / J.G. Ballard. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT | |
| Keyword | Mathematics -- Literary collections. |
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| Keyword | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. |
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| Keyword | REFERENCE -- Writing Skills. |
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| Keyword | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. |
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| Keyword | Mathematics. |
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| Keyword | Wiskunde. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | GN Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession number | Date last seen | Koha item type |
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| Central Library, Sikkim University | Central Library, Sikkim University | General Book Section | 25/07/2016 | 808.890356 FRU/I | P32086 | 10/02/2023 | General Books |