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Lewis Carroll in numberland : his fantastical mathematical logical life : an agony in eight fits / Robin Wilson.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QA29.C353 W55 2008b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Robin J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematicians--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898--Knowledge and learning--Mathematics.
- Carroll, Lewis.
- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898.
- Mathematics.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Auerbach, Nina
- Physical Description:
- xi, 239 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- "Advance reading copy"--cover
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-230) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Publisher's enclosures.
- OCLC:
- 841650620
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