Odd Numbers

• "Young Archimedes
  Archimedes
  Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an...
  
  " by Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Huxley
  Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel...
  
  
• "Pythagoras
  Pythagoras
  Pythagoras of Samos was an Ionian Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Most of the information about Pythagoras was written down centuries after he lived, so very little reliable information is known about him...
  
   and the Psychoanalyst" by Arthur Koestler
  Arthur Koestler
  Arthur Koestler CBE was a Hungarian author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria...
  
  
• "Mother and the Decimal Point" by Richard Llewellyn
  Richard Llewellyn
  Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd , better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a Welsh novelist.Llewellyn Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (8 December 1906 – 30 November 1983), better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn, was a Welsh novelist.Llewellyn Richard Dafydd...
  
  
• "Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics" by James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell
  James Branch Cabell, ; April 14, 1879 – May 5, 1958) was an American author of fantasy fiction and belles lettres. Cabell was well regarded by his contemporaries, including H. L. Mencken and Sinclair Lewis. His works were considered escapist and fit well in the culture of the 1920s, when his...
  
  
• "Peter Learns Arithmetic" by H. G. Wells
  H. G. Wells
  Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...
  
  
• "Socrates
  Socrates
  Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary ...
  
   and the Slave" by Plato
  Plato
  Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
  
  
• "The Death of Archimedes" by Karel Čapek
  Karel Capek
  Karel Čapek was Czech writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Born in 1890 in the Bohemian mountain village of Malé Svatoňovice to an overbearing, emotional mother and a distant yet adored father, Čapek was the youngest of three siblings...
  
  

Imaginaries

• "The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges
  Arthur Porges
  Arthur Porges [pórdžIs], was an American author of numerous short stories, most notably in the 1950s and 1960s, though he continued to write and publish stories until his death.-Life:...
  
  
• "—And He Built a Crooked House" by Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
  
  
• "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney
• "No-Sided Professor" by Martin Gardner
  Martin Gardner
  Martin Gardner was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion...
  
  
• "Superiority" by Arthur C. Clarke
  Arthur C. Clarke
  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
  
  
• "The Mathematical Voodoo" by H. Nearing, Jr.
  Homer Nearing
  Dr Homer C Nearing Jr was an American professor and author of mathematically themed short fiction, often under the byline "H. Nearing Jr.". He is best known for his Professor Cleanth Penn Ransom series published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in the early 1950s...
  
  
• "Expedition" by Fredric Brown
  Fredric Brown
  Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati.He had two sons: James Ross Brown and Linn Lewis Brown ....
  
  
• "The Captured Cross-Section" by Miles J. Breuer
  Miles J. Breuer
  Miles John Breuer was an American physician and science fiction writer. He was part of the first generation of writers to appear regularly in the pulp science fiction magazines, publishing his first story, "The Man with the Strange Head", in the January 1927 issue of Amazing Stories...
  
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• "A. Botts and the Moebius Strip" by William Hazlett Upson
• "God and the Machine" by Nigel Balchin
  Nigel Balchin
  Nigel Balchin was an English novelist and screenwriter particularly known for his novels written during and immediately after World War II: Darkness Falls From the Air, The Small Back Room and Mine Own Executioner.-Life:He was born Nigel Marlin Balchin in Potterne, Wiltshire to...
  
  
• "The Tachypomp" by Edward Page Mitchell
  Edward Page Mitchell
  Edward Page Mitchell was an American editorial and short story writer for the New York Sun, a daily newspaper. He became that newspaper's editor in 1897, succeeding Charles Anderson Dana. Mitchell retired in 1926, a year before dying of a cerebral hemorrhage...
  
  
• "The Island of Five Colors" by Martin Gardner
  Martin Gardner
  Martin Gardner was an American mathematics and science writer specializing in recreational mathematics, but with interests encompassing micromagic, stage magic, literature , philosophy, scientific skepticism, and religion...
  
  
• "The Last Magician" by Bruce Elliott
  Bruce Elliott
  Bruce Elliott was an American writer who wrote mystery fiction, science fiction, and also worked as a television screenwriter. He was also a magician....
  
  
• "A Subway Named Moebius" by A. J. Deutsch
• "The Universal Library" by Kurd Lasswitz
• "Postscript to "The Universal Library"" by Willy Ley
  Willy Ley
  Willy Ley was a German-American science writer and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States. The crater Ley on the far side of the Moon is named in his honor.-Life:...
  
  
• "John Jones's Dollar" by Harry Stephen Keeler
  Harry Stephen Keeler
  Harry Stephen Keeler was a prolific but little-known American author.- Biography :Born in Chicago in 1890, Keeler spent his childhood exclusively in this city, which was so beloved by the author that a large number of his works took place in and around it...
  
  

Fractions

• "A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens
  Sir Patrick Spens
  "Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads , and is of Scottish origin.-Historicity:The events of the ballad are similar to, and may chronicle, an actual event: the bringing home of the Scottish queen Margaret, Maid of Norway across the North Sea in 1290...
  
  " by Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
  Arthur Quiller-Couch
  Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch was a Cornish writer, who published under the pen name of Q. He is primarily remembered for the monumental Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900 , and for his literary criticism...
  
  
• "The Unfortunate Topologist" by Cyril Kornbluth
• "There Once Was a Breathy Baboon" by Sir Arthur Eddington
• "Yet What Are All..." by Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
  
  
• "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" by Ralph Barton
  Ralph Barton
  Ralph Barton was an American artist best known for his cartoons and caricatures of actors and other celebrities...
  
  
• "Mathematical Love" by Andrew Marvell
  Andrew Marvell
  Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, Parliamentarian, and the son of a Church of England clergyman . As a metaphysical poet, he is associated with John Donne and George Herbert...
  
  
• "The Circle" by Christopher Morley
  Christopher Morley
  Christopher Morley was an American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet. He also produced stage productions for a few years and gave college lectures.-Biography:Christopher Morley was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania...
  
  
• "The Circle and the Square" by Thomas Dekker
  Thomas Dekker
  Thomas Dekker was an English Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several decades and brought him into contact with many of the period's most famous dramatists.-Life:...
  
  
• "Euclid
  Euclid
  Euclid , fl. 300 BC, also known as Euclid of Alexandria, was a Greek mathematician, often referred to as the "Father of Geometry". He was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I...
  
   Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet, playwright and feminist. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and was known for her activism and her many love affairs. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work...
  
  
• "Euclid" by Vachel Lindsay
  Vachel Lindsay
  Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered the father of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted...
  
  
• "To Think That Two and Two Are Four" by A. E. Housman
  A. E. Housman
  Alfred Edward Housman , usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900...
  
  
• "The Uses of Mathematics" by Samuel Butler
  Samuel Butler
  Samuel Butler may refer to:*Samuel Butler , author of Hudibras*Samuel Butler , classical scholar, schoolmaster at Shrewsbury, Bishop of Lichfield...
  
  
• "Arithmetic" by Carl Sandburg
  Carl Sandburg
  Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor, best known for his poetry. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, two for his poetry and another for a biography of Abraham Lincoln. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat."-Biography:Sandburg was born in Galesburg,...
  
  
• "Threes (To Be Sung By Niels Bohr
  Niels Bohr
  Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
  
  )" by John Atherton
  John Atherton
  John Atherton was the Anglican Bishop of Waterford and Lismore in the Church of Ireland. He and John Childe were both tried and executed for buggery in 1640.-Life and death:...
  
  
• "Plane Geometry" by Emma Rounds
• "He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift" by Herbert Dingle
  Herbert Dingle
  Herbert Dingle , an English physicist and natural philosopher, who served as president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1951 to 1953, is best known for his opposition to Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity and the protracted controversy that this provoked.-Biography:Dingle was born...
  
  
• "Fearsome Fable" by Bruce Elliott
  Bruce Elliott
  Bruce Elliott was an American writer who wrote mystery fiction, science fiction, and also worked as a television screenwriter. He was also a magician....
  
  
• "Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Russell
  Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
  
  's Dream" by G. H. Hardy
  G. H. Hardy
  Godfrey Harold “G. H.” Hardy FRS was a prominent English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis....
  
  
• "For All Practical Purposes" by C. Stanley Ogilvy
• "Eternity: A Nightmare" by Lewis Carroll
  Lewis Carroll
  Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by the pseudonym Lewis Carroll , was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the...
  
  
• "An Infinity of Guests" by George Gamow
  George Gamow
  George Gamow , born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov , was a Russian-born theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, Big Bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic microwave...
  
  
• "∞
  Infinity
  Infinity is a concept in many fields, most predominantly mathematics and physics, that refers to a quantity without bound or end. People have developed various ideas throughout history about the nature of infinity...
  
  " by Sir Arthur Eddington
• "No Power on Earth" by William Whewell
  William Whewell
  William Whewell was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.-Life and career:Whewell was born in Lancaster...
  
  
• "(x + 1)" by Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
  
• "The Receptive Bosom" by Edward Shanks
  Edward Shanks
  Edward Richard Buxton Shanks was an English writer, known as a war poet of World War I, then as an academic and journalist, and literary critic and biographer. He also wrote some science fiction....
  
  
• "Leinbach's Proof" by Arthur Schnitzler
  Arthur Schnitzler
  Dr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...
  
  
• "Problem from The New Yorker
  The New Yorker
  The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
  
  : "Talk of the Town""
• "A Letter to Tennyson from Mathematical Gazette"
• "A Fable from Mathematical Gazette"
• "There Was a Young Man from Trinity" by Anonymous
  Anonymous work
  Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."...
  
  
• "There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do"" by Anonymous
• "Relativity" by Anonymous
• "There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk" by Anonymous