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Author Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898
Illustrator Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928
Title A Tangled Tale
Note Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Credits Produced by Chris Curnow, Carla Foust, Lindy Walsh and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.
Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni.
Summary "A Tangled Tale" by Lewis Carroll is a collection of whimsical mathematical tales written in the late 19th century. This work creatively blends storytelling with mathematical problems, making it both entertaining and intellectually stimulating. The narrative features various characters, including two travellers, knights, and a tutor, who find themselves in playful yet perplexing situations that require logical reasoning and problem-solving. At the start of the tale, we meet two knights traversing a mountain, where they engage in a spirited conversation about their pace and the time of their ascent. As they descend, the younger knight's eagerness to know the distance they have traveled prompts the older knight to challenge him with a mathematical puzzle, setting the stage for the intertwining of narrative and arithmetic that characterizes the book. The opening also introduces other amusing characters, such as Balbus and a variety of landladies with "eligible apartments," hinting at the mathematical enigmas that will unfold in subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
LoC Class PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
LoC Class QA: Science: Mathematics
Subject Mathematical recreations
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EBook-No. 29042
Release Date
Most Recently Updated Jan 5, 2021
Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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