Lewis Carroll in numberland
Subtitle: his fantastical mathematical logical life ; an agony in eight fits
By: Robin Wilson
Publisher: Allen Lane
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780713997576
Subjects: Knowledge; Mathematics; Och matematik; Mathematicians; Biography; Matematiker
Description: "In this book, the author explores the singular imagination of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - known to millions around the world as Lewis Carroll - the creator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Lewis Carroll in Numberland shows how this incredible mind was not limited to the exuberant fantasy and wordplay of his children's books, which also brim with mathematical allusions - arithmetical, geometrical, logical and mechanical." "Robin Wilson's celebration of Dodgson's mathematical achievements reveals that his work in numbers went far beyond the purely academic. We are taken inside the mind of a man who turned his mathematical genius to the study of voting patterns, to the design of tennis tournaments and even to the prolific creation and popularization of imaginative numerical puzzles."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: From Gryphons to Gravity --; title: Fit the First: The Children of the North --; title: Fit the Second: Uppe toe mine Eyes yn Worke --; title: Fit the Third: Successes and Failures --; title: Fit the Fourth: ... in the Second Book of Euclid --; title: Fit the Fifth: Send Me the Next Book ... --; title: Fit the Sixth: Meat-safes, Majorities and Memory --; title: Fit the Seventh: Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxes --; title: Fit the Eighth: That's Logic --; title: Conclusion: Math and Aftermath.