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Dewey Class	793.73
Title	The Universe in a Handkerchief ([EBook]) : Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays / by Martin Gardner.
Author	Gardner, Martin. , 1914-2010
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	New York, NY : Springer , 1996.
Physical Details	X, 158 pages : 1 online resource.
ISBN	9780387289526
Summary Note	Fiction and Verse.- The Diaries.- Letters.- Books and Articles.- Miscellaneous Amusements.- Doublets.- Pamphlets on Games.: This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. Written by Carroll expert and well-known mathematics author Martin Gardner, this tour through Carroll's inventions is both fun and informative.:
Contents note	Fiction and Verse -- The Diaries -- Letters -- Books and Articles -- Miscellaneous Amusements -- Doublets -- Pamphlets on Games.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-28952-6
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Mathematical recreations . Mathematical recreations -- Mathematics. -- Mathematics, general . Mathematics . Puzzles -- Mathematics, general . Authors: Gardner, Martin. 1914-2010 . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Classification: 793.73 . 793.73 (DDC 21) .

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The Universe in a Handkerchief: Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays

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