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Author:   Robin Wilson (Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics, The Open University) ,  Amirouche Moktefi (Lecturer in Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy, Tallinn University of Technology)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 19.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.90cm
Weight:   0.792kg
ISBN:  

9780198817000

ISBN 10:   0198817002
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   05 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: A Mathematical Life 2: Geometry 3: Algebra 4: Logic 5: Voting 6: Recreational Mathematics 7: Mathematical Legacy 8: Mathematical Bibliography

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It is a book that introduces and explains the most fundamental ideas that underpin our discipline, but crucially it does so in a way that the author has carefully thought through with a view to making these understandable to the reader. * Michael Gove, London Mathematical Society *

It is a book that introduces and explains the most fundamental ideas that underpin our discipline, but crucially it does so in a way that the author has carefully thought through with a view to making these understandable to the reader. * Michael Gove, London Mathematical Society * This book completes a survey of the life and work of a mathematician that is in many ways the opposite of the light-hearted Lewis Carroll... This nicely edited book with many illustrations and written by experts on the subject will certainly allow you to form a proper opinion about Charles Dodgson. * Adhemar Bultheel, European Mathematical Society * This is not a coffee table book about Lewis Carroll, but a scholarly textbook containing the latest research outlining and assessing his contribution to mathematics ... This is very well researched and very well written ... providing an excellent and critical summary of his mathematical works. * Phil Dyke, Mathematics Today * The book is beautifully typeset with many photographs and prints - it has all the charm of a coffee table book, and yet it also manages to be learned and scholarly in its approach, never sacrificing accuracy in the name of accessibility. It is full of delightful anecdotesas well as lucid discussion of complex mathematical theory. * Sara L. Uckelman, British Society for Literature and Science / Lewis Carroll Review * A truly beautiful publication on the mathematical work of Lewis Carroll. * Thomas Sonar, zbMATH * ...this is a great volume, highlighting an aspect of Charles L Dodgson's life not familiar to the broader public. It is well accessible to non-specialists with its contextualization of the topics treated and its elementary examples, but with its many puzzles and riddles sometimes also challenging even for experts. Numerous illustrations, above all portraits and reproductions from manuscripts, invite the reader to dig deeper. * Volker Peckhaus, British Journal for the History of Mathematics * Wilson and Mokte 's volume will be the standard work on Dodgson's mathematics for many years to come. * Mark McCartney, Senior lecturer in mathematics. University of Ulster, London Mathematical Society * The Mathematical World of Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is an important contribution to the vast literature on Charles Dodgson/Lewis Carroll. It is the first academic work that collects the research on Dodgson's wide-ranging mathematical achievements into a single practical volume. * The Mathematical Intelligencer *

Author Information

Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited over 40 books on the history of mathematics, including Lewis Carroll in Numberland, and also on combinatorics and graph theory. Involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history, he has been awarded prizes by the Mathematical Association of America for his 'outstanding expository writing', and the Stanton Medal for outreach activities in combinatorics by the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications. Amirouche Moktefi is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. He is member of the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Estonia, and is associated with the Archives Henri Poincaré - Philosophy and Researches on Sciences and Technologies in France. His areas of interest include the history of mathematics and logic and the philosophy of visual reasoning. He has extensively published on Dodgson's mathematics and logic.

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