The Universe in a Handkerchief

副标题: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays

ISBN: 9780387946733

出版社: Springer

出版年: 1998-10-07

页数: 168

定价: USD 20.95

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.