Wilson, Robin J. <br/><br/>
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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-230) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780393060270 (hardcover) 0393060276 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008037342 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 --Knowledge--Mathematics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematicians--Biography.<br/>Mathematics.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA29.C353  / W55 2008