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_aImaginary numbers : an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings / _cedited by William Frucht. |
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_aNew York : _bJ. Wiley, _c1999. |
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_axiv, 327 p. ; _c23 cm. |
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505 | _aThe 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 -- 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 | _aMathematics -- Literary collections. | |
650 | 0 | _aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric. | |
650 | 0 | _aREFERENCE -- Writing Skills. | |
650 | 0 | _a LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing. | |
650 | 0 | _aMathematics. | |
650 | 0 | _a Wiskunde. | |
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