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9780393060270

Lewis Carroll In Numberland Cl

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  • ISBN13:

    9780393060270

  • ISBN10:

    0393060276

  • Edition: 00
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-17
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Summary

Just when we thought we knew everything about Lewis Carroll, here comes a highly original biography that will appeal to Alice fans everywhere. Fascinated by the inner life of Charles Lutwidge Dodson, Robin Wilson, a Carroll scholar and a noted mathematics professor, has produced this revelatory book'”filled with more than one hundred striking and often playful illustrations'”that examines the many inspirations and sources for Carroll's fantastical writings, mathematical and otherwise. As Wilson demonstrates, Carroll'”who published serious, if occasionally eccentric, works in the fields of geometry, logic, and algebra'”made significant contributions to subjects as varied as voting patterns and the design of tennis tournaments, in the process creating imaginative recreational puzzles based on mathematical ideas. In the tradition of Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind and Andrew Hodges's Alan Turing , this is an engaging look at the incredible genius of one of mathematics' and literature's most enigmatic minds.

Author Biography

Robin Wilson is Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University and Gresham Professor of Geometry in London. He is also a Fellow in Mathematics at Keble College, Oxford.

Table of Contents

Chronology of Events
From Gryphons to Gravityp. 1
Fit the First: The Children of the Northp. 21
Fit the Second: Uppe toe mine Eyes yn Workep. 39
Fit the Third: Successes and Failuresp. 53
Fit the Fourth: ... in the Second Book of Euclidp. 81
Fit the Fifth: Send Me the Next Book ...p. 101
Fit the Sixth: Meat-safes, Majorities and Memoryp. 129
Fit the Seventh: Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxesp. 149
Fit the Eighth: That's Logicp. 171
Conclusion: Math and Aftermathp. 199
Notes and Referencesp. 210
Acknowledgments and Picture Creditsp. 231
Indexp. 233
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