Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles

by Lewis Carroll

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These were over my head as a child, although I enjoyed them as an adult.

mebrock | Feb 27, 2008 |

In addition to being a children's writer, Carroll was a mathematician.

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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0486269221, Paperback)

Forty-two tantalizing teasers — most by the creator of Alice in Wonderland and published here for the first time — Cakes in a Row, Alice's Multiplication Tables, Looking-Glass Time, Arithmetical Croquet, Four Brothers and a Monkey, Hidden Names, Diverse Doublets, Mischmasch, more. Many hints and solutions. Illustrations by John Tenniel.

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