A tangled tale

By lewis carroll

Lewis Carroll

116 pages, parution le 25/01/2023

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In the late 19th century, Lewis Carroll-better known these days as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-was also an established mathematician who had published many books and papers in the fields of algebra and logic. His mathematical interest extended to the setting of puzzles for popular consumption. The stories collected here cover varied subjects including the cataloguing of paintings, the number of times trains will pass each other on a circular track, the most efficient way to rent individual rooms on a square, and many more. They were published originally in The Monthly Packet magazine and then collected with some additional commentary into a book originally published in 1885. Included along with the stories is a full appendix with Carroll's answers, and his often acerbic commentary on the answers submitted to him at the time.

L'auteur - Lewis Carroll

Charles Dodgson qui prendra comme nom de plume Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) incarne aisément l'image type du gentleman victorien. Néanmoins, bien qu'acteur de la modernité de son temps, par l'originalité de son oeuvre, il se distingue des grands courants artistiques contemporains. À cela plusieurs raisons mais ne peut-on voir là l'expression de sa personnalité multiple : à la fois professeur, mathématicien, logicien, photographe et... écrivain