Clifton Fadiman, beginning in the 1920s an editor at Simon & Schuster, a book reviewer for The New Yorker, and a radio and TV personality and public intellectual, edited two anthologies in 1958 and 1962 of stories and "oddments and diversions" from the "universe of mathematics." While both books consist largely of science fiction stories, they also contain poems, cartoons, essays, 'apothems' (apothegms), and even song scores and lyrics, bringing together comprehensive cultural portraits of mathematical themes.

A quarter century later, SF author and mathematician Rudy Rucker published a similar anthology -- dedicated to Fadiman -- reprinting mostly newer stories, reusing two stories from Fadiman's books, and including a handful of originals.

The combined index below includes only the reprinted stories from all three volumes. The photo shows trade paperback reprints of the hardcover first editions of Fadiman's books; Rucker's book was published simultaneously in both formats.

Martin Gardner is reprinted four times in these books, Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, three times each.