A Tangled Tale
by Lewis Carroll · first published 1881
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<p>In the late 19th century, <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lewis-carroll">Lewis Carroll</a>—better known these days as the author of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/lewis-carroll/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/john-tenniel"><i>Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland</i></a>—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 time
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"A Tangled Tale" by Lewis Carroll :-)
on “Ask HN: Math books you recommend just for the way they are written?” ↗Lewis Carrol, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was a mathematician. His collection of short stories, A Tangled Tale, has a lot of math-related humor.
on “Ask HN: Books that blend math and fiction” ↗Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, and A Tangled Tale are probably our most MathML-heavy books. Books from the PD era are not very likely to feature math serious enough to require MathML. This is probably for the best... MathML support in ereaders is poor,…
on “Standard Ebooks” ↗