The Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll: Pillow Problems and a Tangled Tale (Dover Recreational Math)

This is an odd book by the author of Alice in Wonderland. It straddles fantasy and mathematics. Not for light reading but I am working my way through it and have enjoyed it (even though some parts are hard going).

There is any back ground to the equations just raw hard” challenges” I assumed these equation would in could a set up

Great book for all types of math problems. Fun to work, if you love math. Carroll is talented with words and mathematics.

Not bad. But old typesets are annoying and the math puzzles are kinda old imo. Also, too many geometry questions.

excellent book

As expected; condition was as described., book is only moderately interesting, but I wanted to see it anyway.

This book contains two publications by Lewis Carroll.Pillow Problems contains 72 elementary mathematical problems together with their solutions. The problems are hard. The level is comparable to mathematical Olympiad material. The solutions are clear but sometimes use idioms and methods that were in use in the 19th century (like the use of "analysis" and "synthesis" as phases in a geometric proof). The subjects of the problems are geometry, algebra and probability. I try to solve them when I am sleepless in bed, maybe my pillow is not right (at least for some of the problems).A Tangled Tale is more like the Lewis Carroll one expects. Problems are presented as part of an illustrated (tangled) tale. There are ten tales (called "knots") that contain really nice and demanding problems. There is also a section containing the solutions. The text originally appeared as a monthly publication. Solutions were send in and these solutions were used in the text to illustrate common mistakes, to produce nice solutions and to make fun.If you like mathematical problems this book should be of interest to you. If you are just interested in Lewis Carroll then be prepared, the Pillow Problems will be enigmatic and A Tangled Tale will be nonsense, but not the nonsense you know from the Alice book.

I expected fun puzzles and brain teasers. It’s a book of mathematical proofs. Useless for my purpose.

A large number of geometrical puzzles (proving this that or the other about line and triangles, etc) and logical/probability puzzles. And paradoxes. The problems are too hard for general readers, they are intended for mathematicians. Quite interesting and enjoyable for the right reader.

Délai de livraison assez long mais le produit est parfaitement conforme!