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along the oldest child of each of the generations which would constitute his posterity".

Compound-Interest Time Travel Gambit: In "John Jones's Dollar" a man deposits a dollar in a bank, stipulating that it and its accumulated interest are to be paid to "no other person than fortieth descendant.

"For All Practical Purposes" by C.Harry Stephen Keeler (1890 – 1967) was a prolific, half-mad but little-known pulp fiction writer best known for his completely nonsensical plots and generally odd way of writing.

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"The Uses of Mathematics" by Samuel Butler.

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"The Circle and the Square" by Thomas Dekker.

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"There Once Was a Breathy Baboon" by Sir Arthur Eddington."The Unfortunate Topologist" by Cyril Kornbluth."A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens" by Arthur T.

"John Jones's Dollar" by Harry Stephen Keeler."Postscript to "The Universal Library"" by Willy Ley."The Universal Library" by Kurd Lasswitz."The Island of Five Colors" by Martin Gardner." The Tachypomp" by Edward Page Mitchell.Botts and the Moebius Strip" by William Hazlett Upson "The Captured Cross-Section" by Miles J." -And He Built a Crooked House" by Robert A."The Devil and Simon Flagg" by Arthur Porges."The Death of Archimedes" by Karel Čapek."Jurgen Proves It by Mathematics" by James Branch Cabell."Mother and the Decimal Point" by Richard Llewellyn." Pythagoras and the Psychoanalyst" by Arthur Koestler.The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H. A companion volume was published as The Mathematical Magpie (1962). Is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by Clifton Fadiman.