''Adding a Dimension'' is a collection of seventeen scientific
essay
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s by American writer and scientist
Isaac Asimov. It was the third of a series of books collecting essays from ''
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
''The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction'' (usually referred to as ''F&SF'') is a U.S. fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence Spivak's Mercury Press. Editors Anthony Boucher ...
''. It was first published by
Doubleday & Company
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 and was the largest in the United States by 1947. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed th ...
in 1964.
Contents
*Part I: Mathematics
**T-Formation (August 1963)
**One, Ten, Buckle My Shoe (December 1962)
**Varieties of the Infinite (September 1959)
**A Piece of Pi (May 1960)
**Tools of the Trade (September 1960)
**The Imaginary that Isn't (March 1961)
**Pre-Fixing It Up (November 1962)
*Part II: Physics
**The Rigid Vacuum (April 1963)
**The Light that Failed (June 1963)
**The Light Fantastic (August 1962)
*Part III: Chemistry
**Slow Burn (October 1962)
**You, Too, Can Speak Gaelic (March 1963)
*Part IV: Biology
**The Lost Generation (February 1963)
**He's Not My Type (January 1963)
*Part V: Astronomy
**The Shape of Things (September 1962)
**Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (October 1963)
*Part VI: General
**The Isaac Winners (July 1963)
External links
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