The Universe in a Handkerchief von Martin Gardner | Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays | ISBN 9780387256412

The Universe in a Handkerchief

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

von Martin Gardner
Buchcover The Universe in a Handkerchief | Martin Gardner | EAN 9780387256412 | ISBN 0-387-25641-5 | ISBN 978-0-387-25641-2

The Universe in a Handkerchief

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

von Martin Gardner

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.