Synopsis
Balbus, Mad Mathesis, and Her Radiancy deserve to be rescued from Oblivion. The Ten Knots that form this Tangled Tale by Lewis Carrol show him as Teacher, Mathematician, and Story-Teller. To unravel the Knots, to solve the Problems that they conceal will tax the ingenuity and imagination of the Reader enabling him (or her) to escape for a time, like Alice, into a world of Phantastic Logic where rules are inexorably obeyed.
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This tale originally appeared as a serial in the Monthly Packet, beginning in April, 1880. The writer's intention was to embody in each Knot (like the medicine so dexterously, but ineffectually, concealed in the jam of our early childhood) one or more mathematical questions - in Arithmetic, Algebra, or Geometry, as the case might be - for the amusement, and possible edification, of the fair readers of that Magazine.
(from the preface of the original edition of the book, by Lewis Carrol)
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), better known by his pen name, as “Lewis Carroll”, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonder-land and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense.
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A Tangled Tale
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Frost, Arthur B. (illustrator). Very good condition hardcover with clipped dust jacket. Jacket is lightly marked and edges are a little creased and nicked. Spine is slightly cocked. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used. Seller Inventory # 550215
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Arthur B. Frost (illustrator). First published in England 1885, this tale originally appeared as a serial in The Monthly Packet, from April 1880. Pale yellow boards with bright gilt. Jacket clipped and with 2cm closed tear at top of spine. 13 x 21cms with 67pp. We regret we are not able to dispatch orders to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International. Seller Inventory # 007608
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