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*"A New Ballad of Sir Patrick Spens" by Arthur Quiller-Couch, Arthur T. Quiller-Couch *"The Unfortunate Topologist" by Cyril Kornbluth *"There Once Was a Breathy Baboon" by Sir Arthur Eddington *"Yet What Are All..." by Lewis Carroll *"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" by Ralph Barton *"Mathematical Love" by Andrew Marvell *"The Circle" by Christopher Morley *"The Circle and the Square" by Thomas Dekker (writer), Thomas Dekker *"Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" by Edna St. Vincent Millay *"Euclid" by Vachel Lindsay *"To Think That Two and Two Are Four" by A. E. Housman *"The Uses of Mathematics" by Samuel Butler (novelist), Samuel Butler *"Arithmetic" by Carl Sandburg *"Threes (To Be Sung By Niels Bohr)" by John Atherton *"Plane Geometry" by Emma Rounds *"He Thought He Saw Electrons Swift" by Herbert Dingle *"Fearsome Fable" by Bruce Elliott (writer), Bruce Elliott *"Bertrand Russell's Dream" by G. H. Hardy *"For All Practical Purposes" by C. Stanley Ogilvy *"Eternity: A Nightmare" by Lewis Carroll *"An Infinity of Guests" by George Gamow *"Infinity, ∞" by Sir Arthur Eddington *"No Power on Earth" by William Whewell *"(x + 1)" by Edgar Allan Poe *"The Receptive Bosom" by Edward Shanks *"Leinbach's Proof" by Arthur Schnitzler *"Problem from ''The New Yorker'': "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 work, Anonymous *"There Was an Old Man Who Said, "Do"" by Anonymous *"Relativity" by Anonymous *"There Was a Young Fellow Named Fisk" by Anonymous

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