The universe in a handkerchief : Lewis Carroll's mathematical recreations, games, puzzles, and word plays
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The universe in a handkerchief : Lewis Carroll's mathematical recreations, games, puzzles, and word plays
Copernicus, c1996
- : hbk
- : pbk.
Available at / 19 libraries
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Hiroshima University Central Library, Interlibrary Loan
hardcover410.79:G-22/HL4010004000405128
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Hokkaido University, Library, Graduate School of Science, Faculty of Science and School of Science図書
hardcover793.73/G1752070378612
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-153) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
Fiction and Verse.- The Diaries.- Letters.- Books and Articles.- Miscellaneous Amusements.- Doublets.- Pamphlets on Games.
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