A Tangled Tale Annotated

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798738179624

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A Tangled Tale (Annotated) by Lewis Carroll Pdf

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its period.A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 short humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses the readers' responses. The mathematical interpretations of knots are not always easy. Teasing from readers who responded wrongly, giving their names, was not always well received.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783849621681

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A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll Pdf

This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life * all the original illustrations A Tangled Tale is a collection of ten brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly — giving their names — was not always well received. (from wikipedia)

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
ISBN : UCBK:C078337272

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Pillow problems and A tangled tale by Lewis Carroll Pdf

Author : Mike Bruton
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781775845010

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The Annotated Old Four Legs by Mike Bruton Pdf

When the famous South African fish scientist Professor JLB Smith published Old Fourlegs – The Story of the Coelacanth in 1956 he created an international sensation. After all, this 400-million-year-old fish, known only from fossil remains, was thought to have become extinct around 66 million years ago! JLB Smith’s dramatic account of the discovery of the first and second coelacanths in 1938 and 1952 turned him into a cult figure and put South African science on the world map. His book was eventually published in six English editions and translated into nine foreign languages. Mike Bruton’s The Annotated Old Fourlegs includes a facsimile reprint of the original book, to which he has added notes and images in the margins that provide an interesting and revealing commentary on Smith’s text, as well as new introductory and explanatory chapters that bring the coelacanth story up to date.

Author : John G. Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781496207388

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A Cycle of the West by John G. Neihardt Pdf

A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt’s exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the “American Homer,” A Cycle of the West celebrates the land and legends of the Old West in five narrative poems: The Song of Three Friends (1919), The Song of Hugh Glass (1915), The Song of Jed Smith (1941), The Song of the Indian Wars (1925), and The Song of the Messiah (1935). This unforgettable epic of discovery, conquest, courage, and tragedy speaks movingly and resoundingly of a unique American experience. The new introduction by former Texas poet laureate Alan Birkelbach and annotations by Joe Green present fresh views of Neihardt’s iconic work.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393241839

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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll Pdf

The culmination of a lifetime of scholarship, The Annotated Alice is a landmark event in the rich history of Lewis Carroll and cause to celebrate the remarkable career of Martin Gardner. For over half a century, Martin Gardner has established himself as one of the world's leading authorities on Lewis Carroll. His Annotated Alice, first published in 1959, has over half a million copies in print around the world and is beloved by both families and scholars—for it was Gardner who first decoded many of the mathematical riddles and wordplay that lay ingeniously embedded in Carroll's two classic stories, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Forty years after this groundbreaking publication, Norton is proud to publish the Definitive Edition of The Annotated Alice, a work that combines the notes of Gardner's 1959 edition with his 1990 volume, More Annotated Alice, as well as additional discoveries drawn from Gardner's encyclopedic knowledge of the texts. Illustrated with John Tenniel's classic, beloved art—along with many recently discovered Tenniel pencil sketches—The Annotated Alice will be Gardner's most beautiful and enduring tribute to Carroll's masterpieces yet.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781460400395

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Second Edition by Lewis Carroll Pdf

First published in 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies. Like the first, this second edition includes Carroll’s earlier story Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, which allows readers to trace the revisions and to compare Carroll’s own illustrations in the original with the famous John Tenniel illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. This edition also includes new appendix material: George MacDonald writing on the fantastic, the eighteenth-century children’s story Goody Two-Shoes, a section on film and television adaptations of Alice, and new illustrations.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770485723

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll Pdf

First published in 1865, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland began as a story told to Alice Liddell and her two sisters on a boating trip in July 1862. The novel follows Alice down a rabbit-hole and into a world of strange and wonderful characters who constantly turn everything upside down with their mind-boggling logic, word play, and fantastic parodies. The sequel, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, was published in 1871, and was both a popular success and appreciated by critics for its wit and philosophical sophistication. Along with both novels and the original Tenniel illustrations, this edition includes Carroll’s earlier story Alice’s Adventures Under Ground. Appendices include Carroll’s photographs of the Liddell sisters, materials on film and television adaptations, selections from other “looking-glass” books for children, and “The Wasp in a Wig,” an originally deleted section of Through the Looking-Glass.

Author : Don Gifford,Robert J. Seidman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520253973

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Ulysses Annotated by Don Gifford,Robert J. Seidman Pdf

Rev. ed. of: Notes for Joyce: an annotation of James Joyce's Ulysses, 1974.

Author : Lewis Carroll
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782021070200

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A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll Pdf

A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories, published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. In the December 1885 book preface Carroll wrote: 'The writer's intention was to embody in each Knot (like medicine so dexterously, but ineffectually, concealed in the jam of our early childhood) one or more mathematical questions – in Arithmetic, Algebra, or Geometry, as the case might be – for the amusement, and possible edification, of the fair readers of that magazine.'

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319322803

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Learning and Teaching Mathematics in The Global Village by Marcel Danesi Pdf

This book provides a fundamental reassessment of mathematics education in the digital era. It constitutes a new mindset of how information and knowledge are processed by introducing new interconnective and interactive pedagogical approaches. Math education is catching up on technology, as courses and materials use digital sources and resources more and more. The time has come to evaluate this new dynamic, which transcends all previous use of ancillary devices to supplement classroom math instruction. Interactivity and interconnectivity with the online world of math and math texts (such as television programs and internet sites) can be integrated with our traditional modes for delivery of math instruction. This book looks at how this integration can unfold practically by applying these relevant pedagogical principles to elementary topics such as numeration, arithmetic, algebra, story problems, combinatorics, and basic probability theory. The book further exemplifies how mathematics can be connected to topics in popular culture, information technologies, and other such domains.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0253217083

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The Puzzle Instinct by Marcel Danesi Pdf

"Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher : BIG BYTE BOOKS
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1937-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Across the Plains (Abridged, Annotated) by Robert Louis Stevenson Pdf

Famed Scottish writer and traveler, Robert Louis Stevenson not only journeyed across the American Great Plains, he married an American and saw a good deal of of the broad continent. In this volume, Stevenson turns his wonderful prose and biting wit on such topics as Americans, race relations, the illness that had plagued him his entire life, self-examination, the perils of life as an artist, dreams and more. He sees an America that Americans don't see and relates it in the most charming and entertaining of ways. It's not all about America. He also writes of his love of the artist communities of Southern France and the Fife area of his native Scotland. This is the author of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped as you've never read him before. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1787
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10749366

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Annotations Upon The Winter's Tale and Love's Labour's Lost by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Craig
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415073103

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Index by Edward Craig Pdf

Contains a full index of all the topics covered in the first nine volumes of the set.