Book Details

The Universe in a Handkerchief

Publication year: 1996

ISBN: 978-0-387-28952-6

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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.


Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Arithmetic, Mathematical Games, Mathematical recreations, Puzzles, calculus, mathematics