TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,Robin J.
TI  - Lewis Carroll in numberland: his fantastical mathematical logical life : an agony in eight fits 
SN  - 9780393060270 (hardcover)
AV  - QA29.C353 W55 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Carroll, Lewis,
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Biography
KW  - Mathematics
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -