Book description
Lewis Carroll's books have delighted children and adults for
generations, but behind their exuberant fantasy and delightful
nonsense was the mind of a brilliant mathematician.
Now his forgotten achievements in the world of numbers are brought
to light by acclaimed author and mathematician Robin Wilson. Here he
explores the curious imagination of a man whose pioneering work at
Oxford University included investigations into voting patterns and
tennis seeding, who dreamt up numerical conundrums in bed at night and
who filled his writings with problems, paradoxes, puzzles and teasing
games of logic.
Taking us into a world of mock turtles and maps, gryphons and
gravity, Lewis Carroll in Numberland reveals the singular mind
of a genius.
Robin Wilson is Head of the Pure Mathematics Department at the Open
University and, in London, Gresham Professor of Geometry, the oldest
mathematics Chair in England. He is also a Fellow in Mathematics at
Keble College, Oxford. The author and editor of thirty books, including
the critically acclaimed
Four Colours Suffice
, he is well known internationally for his expository skills and has won
a number of prestigious awards for his writings.
