Imaginary numbers : an anthology of marvelous mathematical stories, diversions, poems, and musings /

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Frucht, William
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York : J. Wiley, 1999.
• Θέματα: Mathematics > Literary collections.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.; REFERENCE > Writing Skills.; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.; Mathematics.; Wiskunde.; Electronic books.; Literary collections.

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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
• Resolution of the paradox: a philosophical puppet play / Abner Shimony
• Parallelism / Piet Hein
• Prelude ... (from G�odel, 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 B�ok
• Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis
• Letter from Caroline Herschel (1750-1848) / Siv Cedering
• from We / Yevgeny Zamyatin
• The garden of time / J.G. Ballard.