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• xiii • Introduction (Fantasia Mathematica) • essay by Clifton Fadiman
• 3 • Young Archimedes • (1924) • novelette by Aldous Huxley
• 35 • Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst • (1943) • shortstory by Arthur Koestler
• 37 • Mother and the Decimal Point • (1940) • shortstory by Richard Llewellyn
• 40 • Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics • (1919) • shortstory by James Branch Cabell
• 46 • Peter Learns Arithmetic • (1918) • shortstory by H. G. Wells
• 49 • Socrates and the Slave • (unknown) • shortstory by Plato
• 57 • The Death of Archimedes • (1949) • shortstory by Karel Capek
• 63 • The Devil and Simon Flagg • (1954) • shortstory by Arthur Porges
• 70 • "—And He Built a Crooked House" • (1941) • novelette by Robert A. Heinlein
• 91 • Inflexible Logic • (1940) • shortstory by Russell Maloney
• 99 • No-Sided Professor • [Dr. Stanislav Slapernarski • 1] • (1947) • shortstory by Martin Gardner
• 110 • Superiority • (1951) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• 121 • The Mathematical Voodoo • [C. P. Ransom • 2] • (1951) • shortstory by H. Nearing, Jr.
• 138 • Expedition • (1956) • shortstory by Fredric Brown
• 140 • The Captured Cross-Section • (1929) • shortstory by Miles J. Breuer, M.D.
• 155 • A. Botts and the Möebius Strip • (1945) • shortstory by William H. Upson
• 171 • God and the Machine • (1951) • shortstory by Nigel Balchin
• 182 • The Tachypomp • (1874) • shortstory by Edward Page Mitchell
• 196 • The Island of the Five Colors • [Dr. Stanislav Slapernarski • 2] • (1952) • shortstory by Martin Gardner
• 211 • The Last Magician • (1953) • shortstory by Bruce Elliott
• 222 • A Subway Named Mobius • (1950) • shortstory by A. J. Deutsch
• 237 • The Universal Library • shortstory by Kurd Lasswitz (trans. of Die Universalbibliothek 1904)
• 244 • Postscript to "The Universal Library" • shortstory by Willy Ley
• 248 • John Jones's Dollar • (1915) • shortstory by Harry Stephen Keeler
• 261 • A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens • poem by Arthur Quiller-Couch [as bySir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch]
• 266 • The Unfortunate Topologist • (1957) • poem by C. M. Kornbluth
• 267 • There Once Was a Breathy Baboon • poem by Arthur Eddington
• 268 • Yet What Are All... • poem by Lewis Carroll
• 269 • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star • (1924) • poem by Emil Raymond [as byRalph Barton]
• 270 • Mathematical Love • (1950) • poem by Andrew Marvell
• 271 • The Circle • poem by Christopher Morley
• 272 • The Circle and the Square • poem by Thomas Dekker
• 273 • Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare • (1924) • poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 274 • Euclid • (1914) • poem by Vachel Lindsay
• 275 • To Think That Two and Two Are Four • (1940) • poem by A. E. Housman
• 276 • The Uses of Mathematics • (1863) • poem by Samuel Butler
• 277 • Arithmetic • (1950) • poem by Carl Sandburg
• 278 • Threes • (1957) • poem by John Atherton
• 279 • Plane Geometry • (1925) • poem by Emma Rounds
• 281 • He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift • poem by Herbert Dingle
• 282 • Fearsome Fable • (1951) • shortstory by Bruce Elliott
• 283 • Bertrand Russell's Dream • (1948) • essay by G. H. Hardy
• 284 • For All Practical Purposes • essay by G. S. Ogilvy
• 285 • Eternity: A Nightmare • (1893) • shortfiction by Lewis Carroll
• 286 • An Infinity of Guests • (1947) • essay by George Gamow
• 287 • Infinity • (1935) • poem by Arthur Eddington
• 288 • No Power on Earth • poem by Dr. William Whewell
• 289 • (X+1) • essay by Edgar Allan Poe
• 290 • The Receptive Bosom • essay by Edward Shanks
• 291 • Leinbach's Proof • (1931) • shortfiction by Arthur Schnitzler
• 292 • A Problem • (1957) • essay by Anonymous
• 293 • A Letter to Tennyson • poem by Anonymous
• 294 • A Fable • (1954) • shortfiction by Anonymous
• 295 • There Was a Young Man from Trinity • poem by Anonymous
• 296 • There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do" • poem by Anonymous
• 298 • There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk • poem by Anonymous
• 298 • Relativity • poem by Anonymous