About this book
Lewis Carroll is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. 'A tangled tale' merges his two talents as storyteller and mathematician. It consists of 10 short humorous stories which present one or more mathematical problems. The 10 'knots' as they are called, were first published in 'The Monthly Packet' magazine between April 1880 and March 1885, where readers were invited to solve the problems, and the solution was discussed in a later issue. (Summary by Availle)
Chapters (20)
1Preface. Knot I Excelsior
2Knot II Eligible Apartments
3Knot III Mad Mathesis
4Knot IV The Dead Reckoning
5Knot V Oughts and Crosses
6Knot VI Her Radiancy
7Knot VII Petty Cash
8Knot VIII De Omnibus Rebus
9Knot IX A Serpent with Corners
10Knot X Chelsea Buns
11Answers to Knot I
12Answers to Knot II
13Answers to Knot III
14Answers to Knot IV
15Answers to Knot V
16Answers to Knot VI
17Answers to Knot VII
18Answers to Knot VIII
19Answers to Knot IX
20Answers to Knot X
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