Symbolic Logic: Pts. 1 & 2

Carroll, Lewis; Bartley III, William Wallace

ISBN 10: 0855279745 / ISBN 13: 9780855279745

Published by Harvester Press, 1977

About this Item

Hardcover with some light shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition, dustwrapper with some light rubbing and shelfwear but otherwise in Very Good condition. First edition, pp xxv, 496 THE PACKED WEIGHT OF THIS BOOK IS OVER 1KG, SO FOR UK FIRST CLASS AND INTERNATIONAL, ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COSTS WILL BE REQUIRED.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Symbolic Logic: Pts. 1 & 2
• Publisher: Harvester Press
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0855279745
• ISBN 13: 9780855279745
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Theology & Philosophy

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Synopsis

Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic logic : part I, Elementary, 1896, fifth edition, part II, Advanced, never previously published : together with letters from Lewis Carroll to eminent nineteenth-century logicians and to his "logical sister," and eight versions of the Barber-shop paradox / edited, with annotations and an introd., by William Warren Bartley, III.

Review

Yes, this is the Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland, and these two works show the same quirky humor. Here you see Carroll the mathematician at his playful best. Don't let the title of the first work mislead you--this isn't about modern symbolic logic but about ways of expressing classical logic with symbols. It's loaded with amusing problems to delight any mathematical puzzler. In the second work he turns logic into a game played with diagrams and colored counters, giving you hundreds of challenging and witty syllogisms to solve. Great mind-stretching fun.