Lewis Carroll in numberland: his fantastical mathematical logical life ; an agony in eight fits
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 puzzl...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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. --from publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 237 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
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Autor: Wilson, Robin J.
Jahr: 2008
Contents
Preface vii
Chronology of Events ix
Introduction: From Gryphons to Gravity 1
Scene 1: The Mock Turtle s Education
Scene 2: Humpty Dumpty s Cravat
Scene 3: Alice s Examination
Scene 4: What s in a Name?
Scene 5: The Beaver s Lesson
Scene 6: Map-making
Scene 7: Fortunatus s Purse
Scene 8: A Question of Gravity
Fit the First: The Children of the North 21
Daresbury I Croft I Richmond I Rugby I
Marking Time
Fit the Second: Uppe toe mine Eyes yn Worke 39
An Oxford Undergraduate I A Trio of Examinations:
Responsions, Moderations, Finals
Fit the Third: Successes and Failures 53
The Senior Scholarship I College Teaching I A New
Appointment I A Spot of Schoolteaching I Dodgson
as a Teacher I Poems and Photographs I Ciphers
Fit the Fourth:. . . in the Second Book of Euclid 81
Here s Looking at Euclid I Dodgson s Pamphlets I The
Dynamics of a Parti-cle I The Euclid Debate I Euclid
and his Modern Rivals I Dodgson s Hexagon I Squaring
the Circle
CONTENTS
Fit the Fifth: Send Me the Next Book ... 101
Dodgson the Deacon I More Pamphlets I Letters to
Child-friends I An Algebra Lesson: The Algebraic
Geometry of the Plane, Determinants, The Algebraic
Geometry of Three-dimensional Space, Dodgson s
Method of Condensation I Dodgson s Determinants I
University Whimsy
Fit the Sixth: Meat-safes, Majorities and Memory 129
College Life I Voting in Elections I Memoria Technica I
Endings and Beginnings I Lawn Tennis Tournaments I
Parliamentary Representation
Fit the Seventh: Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxes 149
A Tangled Tale I Carroll s Puzzles: Arithmetical Puzzles,
Geometrical Puzzles, River-crossing Puzzles I Other
Recreations: The Number 42, Finding the Day of the
Week, Colouring Maps, The Monkey and the Weight,
Every Triangle is Isosceles, A Symmetric Poem
Fit the Eighth: Thafs Logic 171
Prim Misses and Sillygisms I The Game of Logic I
Symbolic Logic I Venn, Carroll and Churchill I Logic
Puzzles and Paradoxes I What the Tortoise Said to
Achilles
Conclusion: Math and Aftermath 199
Pillow-Problems I Sums of Squares I Number-guessing I
Divisibility I Right-angled Triangles I Epilogue
Notes and References 210
Acknowledgements and Picture Credits 231
Index 233
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