Two Dances

Dance for Two; Alan Lightman (Pantheon Books, ISBN 0-679-75877-1).

Letters to a Young Mathematician; Ian Stewart (Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-08231-9.

Dance for Two; Alan Lightman (Pantheon Books, ISBN 0-679-75877-1).

Made up of: Foreword; Pas De Deux; A Flash of Light; Smile; Is the Earth Round or Flat?; If Birds Can Fly, Oh Why, Can't I?; Students and Teachers; Time Travel and Papa Joe's Pipe; In His Image; Mirage; To Cleave an Atom; Elapsed Expectations; A Visit by Mr. Newton; Origins; A Day in December; Progress; I = V/R; Nothing But the Truth; Time for the Stars; A Modern-Day Yankee in a Connecticut Court; The Origin of the Universe; How the Camel Got His Hump; Ironland; Other Rooms; Seasons.

Counts as seven entries in the 2006 Short Story Project.

Part of the 2007 Short Story Project.

Part of the 2008 Short Story Project.

Letters to a Young Mathematician; Ian Stewart (Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-08231-9.

Made up of: Preface; Why Do Math?; How I Almost Became a Lawyer; The Breadth of Mathematics; Hasn't It All Been Done?; Surrounded by Math; How Mathematicians Think; How to Learn Math; Fear of Proofs; Can't Computers Solve Everything?; Mathematical Storytelling; Going for the Jugular; Blockbusters; Impossible Problems; The Career Ladder; Pure or Applied?; Where Do You Get Those Crazy Ideas?; How to Teach Math; The Mathematical Community; Pigs and Pickup Trucks; Pleasures and Perils of Collaboration; Is God a Mathematician?

Counts as fourteen entries in the 2006 Short Story Project.

Part of the 2007 Short Story Project.

Part of the 2008 Short Story Project.