The Universe in a Handkerchief
Subtitle: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays
Publisher: Springer; Copernicus
Published: July 1, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780387256412
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.