The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays (1996)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
1996

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ISBN-13:
9780387289526
Related ISBNs:
9780387256412
Publisher:
Springer New York
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Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Mathematics and Statistics
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