Fantasia Mathematica

June’s Book of the Month is Fantasia Mathematica, a collection of mathematical stories, poems, and humour compiled by Clifton Fadiman, and first published by Simon & Schuster in 1958. Authors include Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells, and Arthur C. Clarke. It was republished in softback in 1997 by Copernicus (Springer-Verlag). A companion volume called The Mathematical Magpie was published in 1962.