Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling (Editor)
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Publication Date: March 27th, 1992
Publisher:
Dover Publications
ISBN:
9780486269221
Pages:
96
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Description

Forty-two tantalizing teasers - most by the creator of Alice in Wonderland and published here for the first time - Cakes in a Row, Alice''s Multiplication Tables, Looking-Glass Time, Arithmetical Croquet, Four Brothers and a Monkey, Hidden Names, Diverse Doublets, Mischmasch, more. Many hints and solutions. Illustrations by John Tenniel.

About the Author

Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.

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