The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays

The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays image
ISBN-10:

0387256415

ISBN-13:

9780387256412

Author(s): GARDNER, MARTIN
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Released: Jul 01, 2005
Publisher: Copernicus
Format: Paperback, 168 pages
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Description:

This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. Written by Carroll expert and well-known mathematics author Martin Gardner, this tour through Carroll's inventions is both fun and informative.


























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