The Universe in a Handkerchief The Universe in a Handkerchief

The Universe in a Handkerchief

Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays

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Beschreibung des Verlags

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.

GENRE
Wissenschaft und Natur
ERSCHIENEN
2007
3. April
SPRACHE
EN
Englisch
UMFANG
168
Seiten
VERLAG
Springer New York
GRÖSSE
17,4
 MB

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