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The universe in a handkerchief : Lewis Carroll's mathematical recreations, games, puzzles, and word plays / Martin Gardner.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QA95 .G3325 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematical recreations.
- Literary recreations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Copernicus, [1996]
- Summary:
- Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland", was also famous for his puns, anagrams, acrostics, and riddles. In this book, Martin Gardner, the preeminent writer on recreational mathematics of our time, takes the reader on a tour of Carroll's inventions, ranging from games such as "arithmetical croquet" to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. 15 illus. 6/96.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-153) and index.
- ISBN:
- 038794673X
- OCLC:
- 33946924
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