Lewis Carroll in numberland
his fantastical mathematical logical life ; an agony in eight fits
by Robin J. Wilson
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"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.
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Lewis Carroll In Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life An Agony In Eight Fits
2010, W. W. Norton & Company
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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life
2010, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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Lewis Carroll en el país de los números: Su fantástica biografía matemática
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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life
2009, Penguin Books, Limited
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Lewis Carroll in numberland: his fantastical mathematical logical life ; an agony in eight fits
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Lewis Carroll in numberland: his fantastical mathematical logical life : an agony in eight fits
2008, W.W. Norton & Co.
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Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician.Now his forgotten achievements in the world of numbers are brought to light by acclaimed author and mathematician Robin Wilson. Here he explores the curious imagination of a man whose pioneering work at Oxford University included investigations into voting patterns and tennis seeding, who dreamt up numerical conundrums in bed at night and who filled his writings with problems, paradoxes, puzzles and teasing games of logic.Taking us into a world of mock turtles and maps, gryphons and gravity, Lewis Carroll in Numberland reveals the singular mind of a genius.
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