Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles ------- Inscription by Edward Wakeling

Lewis Carroll. Newly compiled & edited by Edward Wakeling

ISBN 10: 0486269221 / ISBN 13: 9780486269221

Published by Dover, USA, 1992

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PAPERBACK 1992. 80 pages. Flat spine. Flat covers. Inscription by Edward Wakeling dated 1992. No other inscriptions. Clean & tight book. Flat pages. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref 142:18.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles ------- Inscription by Edward Wakeling
• Publisher: Dover, USA
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486269221
• ISBN 13: 9780486269221
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Signed: Editor Signed Inscription

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Synopsis

Widely known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and other books for children, Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson) also excelled as a mathematician and inventor of puzzles. Toward the end of his life, Carroll worked on a book of mathematical puzzles and games but died before it was completed. This book is a new compilation of Carroll's surviving puzzles and games, assembled and edited by Edward Wakeling, a Lewis Carroll scholar and writer on mathematics. Included are a substantial number of problems that Carroll had intended for his collection.
Among the problems — many published here for the first time — are these baffling brain teasers: Cakes in a Row; Alice's Multiplication Tables; Looking-Glass Time; Four Brothers and a Monkey; Hidden Names; Handicaps; Diverse Doublets; Mischmasch; Arithmetical Croquet; Square Numbers; A Sticky Problem; Wise Eyes; Painting Cubes; Two Clocks; An Amazing Maze; The Number Forty-Two; and 26 others.
In addition to Carroll's original mathematical inventions and games, the editor has supplied a few original problems of his own. Some hints and solutions are also provided. Enhanced with some of John Tenniel's famous illustrations, this volume is a delightful double treat for any puzzle enthusiast or lover of the "Alice" books.

About the Author

Lewis Carroll (1832–98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.