Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life
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Robin Wilson, British Carroll scholar and noted mathematics professor, paints a charming picture of Charles Dodgson in this slender biography. Skipping over the most chronicled aspects of Dodgson's life with only a sharp side note deriding rumors of his pedophilia as bad history and bad psychology, Wilson focuses on Dodgson's mathematical and educational accomplishments: pamphlets and books on Euclid, an efficient way of calculating determinants, astute analysis of election methods, and systems of mnemonics and ciphers. Wilson also includes puzzles, a number of Dodgson's photographs, and humorous and satirical letters.
Seller's description:
A penetrating work that explores the amazing imagination and mathematical genius of the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 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. 100 illustrations
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Seller name: Integrity Books & Music (Shipping rates and seller details)
Item number (ASIN): 0393060276
Author: Robin Wilson
ISBN: 0393060276
Item Dimensions: 89 x 558 x 852 (hundredths-inches)
Languages: English x English x English
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Package Dimensions: 110 x 560 x 830 (hundredths-inches)
Publication Date: November 17, 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Binding: Hardcover
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