''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 ...

s by American writer and scientist

Isaac Asimov Isaac Asimov ( ; 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. During his lifetime, Asimov was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers, along with Robert A. Heinlein and ...

. 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 fiction magazine, fantasy and science fiction magazine first published in 1949 by Mystery House, a subsidiary of Lawrence E. Spivak, Lawrence Spiva ...

''. It was first published by

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in 1968.

*"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)

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Scientific essays Essay collections by Isaac Asimov 1968 non-fiction books Works originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction Doubleday (publisher) books {{sci-essay-stub

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