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

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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.

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

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