Lewis Carroll in numberland : his fantastical mathematical logical life : an agony in eight fits / Robin Wilson.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xi, 237 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780393060270 (hardcover)
  • 0393060276 (hardcover)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA29.C353 W55 2008
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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
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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

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