Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles - Brossura

Carroll, Lewis; Wakeling, Edward

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486288617 ISBN 13: 9780486288611

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1996

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

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.

Contenuti:

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

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0486288617
• ISBN 13: 9780486288611
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 79