From the Book - First edition.
Part 1: Mathematical structure, creativity, and constraint
One, two, buckle my shoe: the patterns of poetry
The geometry of narrative: how mathematics can structure a story
A workshop for potential literature: mathematics and the Oulipo
Let me count the ways: the arithmetic of narrative choice
Part 2: Algebraic allusions: the narrative uses of mathematics
Fairy-tale figures: the symbolism of numbers in fiction
Ahab's arithmetic: mathematical metaphors in fiction
Travels in fabulous realms: the math of myth
Part 3: Mathematics becomes the story
Taking an idea for a walk: mathematical concepts so compelling they escape into fiction
The real life of pi: thematic mathematics in the novel
Moriarty was a mathematician: the role of the mathematical genius in literature.