Lewis Carroll's Games and Puzzles

by Lewis Carroll

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486269221
• ISBN13: 9780486269221
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

More gems from a master

Lewis Carroll was of course one of the greatest and most influential children's writers who ever lived. He was also a mathematics lecturer at Oxford who wrote excellent books on logic. It has been said that these were two halves of a split personality, but this book is proof that they were not. Here are some wonderful puzzles that unite the children's writer and the mathematician, and will appeal to everyone who has the slightest trace of mathematical ability. Edward Wakeling, a noted authority on Lewis Carroll and himself a mathematician, has done a good job assembling this book.