Universe in a Handkerchief : Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays Hard cover - 1996
by Gardner, Martin
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland", was also famous for his puns, anagrams, acrostics, and riddles. In this book, Martin Gardner, the preeminent writer on recreational mathematics of our time, takes the reader on a tour of Carroll's inventions, ranging from games such as "arithmetical croquet" to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. 15 illus. 6/96.
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- Title Universe in a Handkerchief : Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays
- Author Gardner, Martin
- Binding Hard Cover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Condition Used - Fine
- Pages 158
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer-Verlag, N Y
- Date 1996
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 152593
- ISBN 9780387946733 / 038794673X
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.36 x 0.61 in (24.38 x 16.15 x 1.55 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mathematical recreations, Literary recreations
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95051303
- Dewey Decimal Code 793.73