Synopses & Reviews
Best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll was also a noted mathematician and puzzlist. Toward the end of his life, he was working on a collection of puzzles, but died before it was completed. Edward Wakeling, a Lewis Carroll scholar and mathematician, drew on that collection to prepare this volume of 42 delightfully diverting mind-benders: A Geometrical Paradox; Castle Croquet; A Sticky but Polished Riddle; Predicting the Total; Pounds, Shillings and Pence; Cats and Rats; Eligible Apartments; A Good Prospect; The Monkey and Weight Problem; Feeding the Cat; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; Crossing the River; Who's Coming to Dinner?; Going to the Theatre; Two Tumblers; Spheres and Dodecahedrons; and 26 more. Enhanced with illustrations by John Tenniel (the original illustrator of Alice) and others, this volume will delight Lewis Carroll fans and puzzlists alike. Solutions are included.
Synopsis
This challenging collection of 42 mathematical mind-benders, compiled by a noted Lewis Carroll scholar, includes Castle Croquet, A Sticky but Polished Riddle, Who's Coming to Dinner?, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Eligible Apartments, Predicting the Total, and more. Includes complete solutions and drawings by John Tenniel, the original illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Synopsis
Forty-two mathematical mind-benders: Castle Croquet, A Sticky but Polished Riddle, Who's Coming to Dinner?, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Feeding the Cat, and more. Solutions.
Synopsis
This challenging collection of 42 mathematical mind-benders, compiled by a noted Lewis Carroll scholar, includes Castle Croquet, A Sticky but Polished Riddle, Who's Coming to Dinner?, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, Eligible Apartments, Predicting the Total, and more. Includes complete solutions and drawings by John Tenniel, the original illustrator of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Why Is a Raven Like a Writing-Desk?
2. A Rebus Letter
3. A Spiral Letter
4. The Captive Queen
5. A New Way to Pay Old Debts
6. The Day of the Week for Any Given Date
7. A Geometrical Paradox
8. The Rule of Three
9. The Monkey and Weight Problem
10. Crossing the River
11. Castle Croquet
12. More Doublets
13. Names in Poems
14. Anagrams
15. The Flower Riddle
16. Feeding the Cat
17. The Sun and the Moon
18. Tangrams
19. A Sticky but Polished Riddle
20. Anagrammatic Sonnet
21. A Charade
22. Fish Riddle
23. Cats and Rats
24. Syzygies
25. "Pounds, Shillings and Pence"
26. Three Triangles
27. Every Triangle Has a Pair of Equal Sides!
28. A Good Prospect
29. The Telegraph Cipher
30. Division by 9 and 11
31. Coins
32. Bag Containing Tickets
33. Going to the Theatre
34. Two Tumblers
35. Roman Numerals
36. Spheres and Dodecahedrons
37. Predicting the Total
38. The Impossible Hole
39. Excelsior
40. Eligible Apartments
41. Who's Coming to Dinner?
42. Memoria Technica