Author: Gardner, Martin
Hardback; Book; 44 Figures
168 pages
Published: December 1995
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN: 038794673X
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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.This work contains puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet, to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus.