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The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays

By Martin Gardner

Book information

Publisher
Copernicus
Year
1996
ISBN
0-387-94673-X, 9780387946733
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12045637 bytes)
Pages
158\166
Time added
2015-04-28 16:00:00
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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.

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