''Science, Numbers, and I'' is a collection of seventeen scientific
essay
An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal a ...
s by American writer and scientist
Isaac Asimov. It was the sixth 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 1968.
Contents
*"Balancing the Books" (''F&SF'', July 1966)
*"BB or Not BB, That is the Question" (August 1966)
*"I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover" (September 1966)
*"Portrait of the Writer as a Boy" (October 1966)
*"Old Man River" (November 1966)
*"The Symbol-Minded Chemist" (December 1966)
*"Right Beneath Your Feet" (January 1967)
*"Impossible, That's All" (February 1967)
*"Crowded!" (March 1967)
*"A Matter of Scale" (April 1967)
*"Times of Our Lives" (May 1967)
*"Non-Time Travel" (June 1967)
*"Twelve Point Three Six Nine" (July 1967)
*"Kaleidoscope in the Sky" (August 1967)
*"The Great Borning" (September 1967)
*"Music to My Ears" (October 1967)
*"Knock Plastic!" (November 1967)
External links
Asimovonline.com
Scientific essays
Essay collections by Isaac Asimov
1968 non-fiction books
Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Doubleday (publisher) books
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