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Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life: An Agony in Eight Fits
In the tradition of Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind, this penetrating work explores the amazing imagination and mathematical genius of the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. 100 illustrations.
Book Details
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: Jun 14th, 2010
- Pages: 237
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.24in - 6.30in - 0.64in - 0.46lb
- EAN: 9780393304527
- Categories: • History & Philosophy• English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh• Literary Figures
About the Author
Wilson, Robin: - Robin Wilson is the author and editor of more than thirty books, including Four Colors Suffice and Lewis Carroll in Wonderland. He is a professor of pure mathematics at the Open University, and a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He lives in London.
Praise for this book
Wilson shows that Dodgson turned the most sober of problems into child's play.--Jascha Hoffmann "Nature"