Lewis Carroll in numberland : his fantastical mathematical logical life : an agony in eight fits /
Wilson, Robin J.
Lewis Carroll in numberland : his fantastical mathematical logical life : an agony in eight fits / Robin Wilson. - 1st American ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, 2008. - xi, 237 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-230) and index.
Introduction: From gryphons to gravity -- Children of the north -- Uppe to mine eyes yn work -- Successes and failures -- --in the second book of Euclid -- Send me the next book-- -- Meat-safes, majorities and memory -- Puzzles, problems and paradoxes -- That's logic -- Math and aftermath.
As Wilson demonstrates, Carroll--who published serious, if occasionally eccentric, works in the fields of geometry, logic, and algebra--made significant contributions to subjects as varied as voting patterns and the design of tennis tournaments, in the process creating imaginative recreational puzzles based on mathematical ideas. --from publisher description
9780393060270 (hardcover) 0393060276 (hardcover)
2008037342
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 --Knowledge--Mathematics.
Mathematicians--Biography.
Mathematics.
QA29.C353 / W55 2008
Lewis Carroll in numberland : his fantastical mathematical logical life : an agony in eight fits / Robin Wilson. - 1st American ed. - New York : W.W. Norton, 2008. - xi, 237 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-230) and index.
Introduction: From gryphons to gravity -- Children of the north -- Uppe to mine eyes yn work -- Successes and failures -- --in the second book of Euclid -- Send me the next book-- -- Meat-safes, majorities and memory -- Puzzles, problems and paradoxes -- That's logic -- Math and aftermath.
As Wilson demonstrates, Carroll--who published serious, if occasionally eccentric, works in the fields of geometry, logic, and algebra--made significant contributions to subjects as varied as voting patterns and the design of tennis tournaments, in the process creating imaginative recreational puzzles based on mathematical ideas. --from publisher description
9780393060270 (hardcover) 0393060276 (hardcover)
2008037342
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 --Knowledge--Mathematics.
Mathematicians--Biography.
Mathematics.
QA29.C353 / W55 2008