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Clifton Paul "Kip" Fadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) was an American intellectual, author, editor, and radio and television personality. He began his work in radio, and switched to television later in his career.
The Mathematical Magpie is an anthology published in 1962, compiled by Clifton Fadiman as a companion volume to his Fantasia Mathematica (1958). [1] The volume contains stories, cartoons, essays, rhymes, music, anecdotes, aphorisms, and other oddments.
Fantasia Mathematica [1] is an anthology published in 1958 containing stories, humor, poems, etc., all on mathematical topics, compiled by Clifton Fadiman. A companion volume was published as The Mathematical Magpie (1962). The volume contains writing by authors including Robert Heinlein, Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, and Martin Gardner.
The set included an index similar to the Great Books' Syntopicon, along with reading plans of increasing difficulty.Hutchins wrote an introduction with a more informal tone than he used in The Great Conversation, his preface to the Great Books, and that chiefly explained the relevance of most of the categories making up the set: "The Imagination of Man" (about fiction and drama), "Man and ...
The Time Reading Program (TRP) was a book sales club run by Time–Life, the publisher of Time magazine, from 1962 through 1966. Time was known for its magazines, and nonfiction book series' published under the Time-Life imprint, while the TRP books were reprints of an eclectic set of literature, both classic and contemporary, as well as nonfiction works and topics in history.
Clifton Fadiman (b. 1904) was Sarah Mandelbaum Sidis's nephew, according to Amy Wallace's book about William James Sidis, so Boris Sidis was Fadiman's uncle, not his grandfather or his great-uncle. Boris and Sarah Sidis had two children, William James Sidis (b. 1898) and Helena (not Grace) Sidis (b. 1908).
His uncle was Clifton Fadiman, [3] [19] and he is a cousin of Anne Fadiman. [3] His brother, Jeffrey A. Fadiman, is a professor of international marketing at San José State University and a language and area specialist of Eastern and Southern Africa, with published work on the Meru tribe of Mount Kenya.
[1] [2] Among her most important mentors were Columbia professors Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling, while Clifton Fadiman was an important inspiration: She wrote about these three in her final non-fiction work, When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling (2002). [citation needed]