Lewis Carroll in Numberland by Wilson, Robin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Epigraph Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Chronology of Events Introduction: From Gryphons to Gravity Scene 1: The Mock Turtle’s Education Scene 2: Humpty Dumpty’s Cravat Scene 3: Alice’s Examination Scene 4: What’s in a Name? Scene 5: The Beaver’s Lesson Scene 6: Map-making Scene 7: Fortunatus’s Purse Scene 8: A Question of Gravity Fit the First: The Children of the North

Daresbury Croft Richmond Rugby Marking Time

Fit the Second: Uppe toe mine Eyes yn Worke

An Oxford Undergraduate A Trio of Examinations Responsions Moderations Finals

Fit the Third: Successes and Failures

The Senior Scholarship College Teaching A New Appointment A Spot of Schoolteaching Dodgson as a Teacher Poems and Photographs Ciphers

Fit the Fourth: …in the Second Book of Euclid

Here’s Looking at Euclid Dodgson’s Pamphlets The Dynamics of a Parti-cle The Euclid Debate Euclid and his Modern Rivals Dodgson’s Hexagon Squaring the Circle

Fit the Fifth: Send Me the Next Book…

Dodgson the Deacon More Pamphlets Letters to Child-friends An Algebra Lesson The Algebraic Geometry of the Plane Determinants The Algebraic Geometry of Three-dimensional Space Dodgson’s ‘Method of Condensation’ Dodgson’s Determinants University Whimsy

Fit the Sixth: Meat-safes, Majorities and Memory

College Life Voting in Elections Memoria Technica Endings and Beginnings Lawn Tennis Tournaments Parliamentary Representation

Fit the Seventh: Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxes

A Tangled Tale Carroll’s Puzzles Arithmetical Puzzles Geometrical Puzzles River-crossing Puzzles Other Recreations The Number 42 Finding the Day of the Week Colouring Maps The Monkey and the Weight Every Triangle is Isosceles A Symmetric Poem

Fit the Eighth: That’s Logic

Prim Misses and Sillygisms The Game of Logic Symbolic Logic Venn, Carroll and Churchill Logic Puzzles and Paradoxes What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

Conclusion: Math and Aftermath

Pillow-Problems Sums of Squares Number-guessing Divisibility Right-angled Triangles Epilogue

Notes and References Acknowledgements