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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Robin Wilson
Publisher: Allen Lane
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 55306
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0713997575
EAN: 9780713997576
ASIN: 0713997575
Publication Date: July 3, 2008
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Excellent overview of Carroll the Mathematician July 26, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the looking-glass" are classics, and Lewis Carroll is also known as a pioneer of photography, but his mathematics is less well-known. This excellent book is a very readable account of Carroll's mathematics: his puzzles, his occasional pieces like "The Dynamics of a Parti-cle", his defence of Euclid, and his more serious work on the mathematics of voting systems, determinants and logic. Appropriately, this book is very entertaining: Carroll and Wilson share a love of jokes! You don't need to be a mathematician to enjoy this: if you want to know about Carroll's life beyond the Alice books, this is an excellent place to start.
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