| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xi, 237 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-230) and index. |
| 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 |
| Subject |
Mathematicians -- Biography.
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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 -- Knowledge -- Mathematics.
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Mathematics.
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| ISBN |
9780393060270 hardcover |
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0393060276 hardcover |
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