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EDITORIAL INFORMATION

This delightful anthology explores the many ways in which creative writers worked with mathematical themes-from the marvels of infinity and the peculiarities of space-time to artificial intelligence, black holes, and quantum weirdness. Whether ruminating on the mathematical beauty of music, amusing us with logical absurdities, or conjuring up worlds of elusive, sometimes beautiful or terrifying dimensions, these writers impart a wondrous appreciation of the power, elegance, and ingenuity of mathematical thought.

(Extracted from the back cover).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.
-Preface.

-1. The Form of Space. Italo Calvino.

-2. A New Golden Age. Rudy Rucker.

-3. A Serpent with Corners. Lewis Carroll.

-4. A Positive Reminder. J.A. Lindon.

-5. How Kazir Won His Wife? Raymond Smullyan.

-6. 11 May 1905. 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. Anber Shimony.

-11. Parallelism. Piet Hein.

-12. Prelude. Douglas Hofstadter.

-13. The Third Sally, or The Dragons of Probability. Stanislaw Lem.

-14. Concerning Irregular Figures. Edwin Abbott Abbott.

-15. The Definition of Love. Andrew Marvell.

-16. On Fiddib Har. 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 Libray of Babel. Jorge Luis Borges.

-27. Enantiomorphis (A Natural History of Mirrors). Christian Bök.

-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.

-Acnowledgments.

-Permission Acnowledgments.