A Tangled Tale
by Lewis Carroll 
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Ten very clever and interesting mathematical and logic problems. They require careful comprehension and are challenging, but the age (and imperial measurement!) of them does not affect their enjoyment. However, I do question the clarity of some of the questions eg Knot 10 and the invalids, which was clearly a contemporaneous issue as Dodgson addresses these in the answers ...
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Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen show more name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1885; 1880-1885
- Epigraph*
- "Kobold, führ' sie auf und ab!"
- First words*
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