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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Publisher Description

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
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2007
April 3
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
168
Pages
PUBLISHER
Springer New York
SELLER
Springer Nature B.V.
SIZE
17.4
MB

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