Adding a Dimension

Adding a Dimension

Infobox Book
name = Adding a Dimension
author = Isaac Asimov
country = flag|USA
language = English
series = Fantasy & Science Fiction essays
genre = science essay
publisher = Doubleday
release_date = 1964
media_type = print (Hardback and Paperback)
pages =
isbn = 0-234-77874-1
preceded_by = View from a Height
followed_by = Of Time, Space, & Other Things "Adding a Dimension" is a collection of seventeen scientific essays by Isaac Asimov. It was the third of a series of books collecting essays from "The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction". It was first published by Doubleday & Company 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)

References

"Adding a Dimension" at [http://thethunderchild.com/Sourcebooks/Asimov/AisForAsimov/AddingADimension.html The Thunder Child] .


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