Copernicus
© 1996
The Universe in a Handkerchief
Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays
Authors: Gardner, Martin
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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.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Fiction and Verse
Pages 1-20
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The Diaries
Pages 21-46
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Letters
Pages 47-57
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Books and Articles
Pages 59-74
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Miscellaneous Amusements
Pages 75-82
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Universe in a Handkerchief
- Book Subtitle
- Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays
- Authors
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- Martin Gardner
- Copyright
- 1996
- Publisher
- Copernicus
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-0-387-28952-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/0-387-28952-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-94673-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-25641-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 158
- Topics
