Table of Contents
Preface vii
Chronology of Events ix
Introduction: From Gryphons to Gravity 1
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 1 The Children of the North 21
Daresbury
Croft
Richmond
Rugby
Marking Time
Fit the 2 Uppe toe mine Eyes yn Worke 39
An Oxford Undergraduate
A Trio of Examinations: Responsions, Moderations, Finals
Fit the 3 Successes and Failures 53
The Senior Scholarship
College Teaching
A New-Appointment
A Spot of Schoolteaching
Dodgson as a Teacher
Poems and Photographs
Ciphers
Fit the 4 ...in the Second Book of Euclid 81
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 5 Send Me the Next Book... 101
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 6 Meat-safes, Majorities and Memory 129
College Life
Voting in Elections
Memoria Technica
Endings and Beginnings
Lawn Tennis Tournaments
Parliamentary Representation
Fit the 7 Puzzles, Problems and Paradoxes 149
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 8 That's Logic 171
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 199
Pillow-Problems
Sums of Squares
Number-guessing
Divisibility
Right-angled Triangles
Epilogue
Notes and References 210
Acknowledgements and Picture Credits 231
Index 233
