Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles (Dover Recreational Math)

About this book

Best known as the author of Alices Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll was also a noted mathematician and puzzlist. Toward the end of his life he was working on a collection of puzzles but died before it was completed. Edward Wakeling a Lewis Carroll scholar and mathematician drew on that collection to prepare this volume of 42 delightfully diverting mind-benders: A Geometrical Paradox; Castle Croquet; A Sticky but Polished Riddle; Predicting the Total; Pounds Shillings and Pence; Cats and Rats; Eligible Apartments; A Good Prospect; The Monkey and Weight Problem; Feeding the Cat; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; Crossing the River; Whos Coming to Dinner?; Going to the Theatre; Two Tumblers; Spheres and Dodecahedrons; and 26 more. Enhanced with illustrations by John Tenniel (the original illustrator of Alice) and others this volume will delight Lewis Carroll fans and puzzlists alike. Solutions are included.