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The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays Martin Gardner 1996 edition
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The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays
Martin Gardner
This work contains puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet, to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus.
158 pages, biography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 7, 1998 |
| Original release date | 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780387946733 |
| Publishers | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Pages | 158 |
| Dimensions | 167 × 241 × 17 mm · 385 g |
| Language | English |
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