Symbolic logic and the game of logic book by lewis carroll. Mathematician and author lewis carroll 18321898 has delighted millions with his most widely regarded book, alices adventures in wonderland. Much of carrolls life still remains a mystery, with several years unaccounted for. He was also a mathematician, photographer, and anglican deacon. Lewis carroll presents a delightfully lighthearted approach to predicate logic, in illustrating the very principles of logic that underly even the furthest reaches of mathematical practice. Here you see carroll the mathematician at his playful best. In order to describe the ideas and principles of logic in a way that makes them easy and accessible, carroll designed his book.
Lewis carrolls symbolic logic book by lewis carroll. The game of logic by lewis carroll free at loyal books. That story of yours, about your once meeting the seaserpent, always sets me off. In an attempt to avoid it, he insisted that a proposition all m are x makes a statement about existing things. Explore lewis carrolls the game of logic, a book on the british librarys discovering literature website. Lewis carrolls trilateral diagrams suffer from the same potential inconsistency. On the one side, you will learn what was the method lewis carroll used to compose his tales, the method behind the contradictions, puzzles and paradoxes in his books. Editions of lewis carrolls symbolic logic by lewis carroll. Symbolic logic, for instance, shows the mind of charles lutwidge dodgson rather than the whimsical lewis carroll. Browse books by lewis carroll alices adventures in wonderland. The poems jabberwocky and the hunting of the snark are. Also very enlightening is his sidebyside comparison of his method and those of euclid and venn. This chapter discusses the concept of lewis carrolls logic.
Symbolic logic 1896 by lewis carroll free pdf book lewis carroll charles lutwidge dodgson, better known by his pen name lewis carroll, was an english writer of worldfamous childrens fiction, notably alices adventures in wonderland and its sequel through the lookingglass. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching. I shall be grateful to any reader of this book who will point out any mistakes or misprints he may happen to notice in it, or any passage which he thinks is not clearly expressed. I will now work out, by these formulae, as models for the reader to imitate, some problems in syllogisms which have been already worked, by diagrams, in book v. Carroll was also a mathematician, logician, photographer and an anglican deacon. It can be used as a selfstudy guide or as a manual for educators teaching elements of logic to schoolchildren. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. Yes, this is the lewis carroll who wrote alice in wonderland, and these two works show the same quirky humor. Topics logic, symbolic and mathematical, logic juvenile literature publisher london and new york. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. I have a book of his since childhood, one half of it is an elaborate story with a bunch of characters who solve math puzzle, very laytonesque, another is his ideas on logics. Lewis carroll is one of those writers on logic obscured by contradictory influences, balanced between the old logic and the new trends.
Alice in wonderland is classic story has been read and reproduced countless times and will always continue to be an amazing piece of literary art. This is a curious version of carrolls classic book. Dodgson, charles lutwidge and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The author of the alice books was also a fan of clever word puzzles and logic games. A lewis carroll brainteaser updated for todays logic lovers.
This book by lewis carroll is a wonderful source to learn the basics of logic in a funny and natural way. Lewis carroll 1832 1898 charles lutwidge dodgson january 27, 1832 january 14, 1898, better known by the pen name lewis carroll, was a british author, mathematician, logician, anglican clergyman and photographer his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy has delighted audiences ranging from the most naive to the most sophisticated. Neuhouser mathematics department taylor university charles lutwidge dodgson 18321898, better known as lewis carroll, is best known as the creative and imaginative author of the alice stories, but he was also a mathematician at christ church college, oxford university and a devout. At christ church, oxford, he studied mathematics and worked from 1855 to 1881 as a lecturer tutor. With each copy of this book is given an envelope, containing a diagram similar to the frontispiece on card, and nine counters, four red and five grey. A selection from symbolic logic even in his most abstruse works on mathematics and logic, lewis carroll could not fully repress his instinct for nonsense. It is very clear and consequent and gives the basic idea of propositions and syllogisms. The game of logic is a book, published in 1886, written by the english mathematician charles lutwidge dodgson 18321898, better known under his literary pseudonym lewis carroll. Symbolic logic part i elementary by lewis carroll abebooks. Carrolls work in logic, notably the unpublished second part of his book symbolic logic, foreshadowed results that appeared about 100 years later. Symbolic logic 1896 by lewis carroll free pdf book. Lewis carroll books biography and list of works author. Temptation to quote from alices experiences with which so many people can identify, is indeed great.
Symbolic logic by lewis carroll free at loyal books. This book has all the illustrations of the original. Carrolls own view is found in the text of his book, symbolic logic, when he states that i maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorized in attaching any meaning he likes to any word or phrase he intends to use. Especially his diagram method i find particularly illustrative and worth of todays classroom. The game of logic, described by lewis carrollauthor of alice in wonderlandin 1887 consists of discussing the meaning of propositions like some fresh cakes are sweet, and is an instructive introduction to the concepts of logic. Carrolls book is an engaging, even playful, introduction to basic logic. Free audio book that you can download in mp3, ipod and itunes format for your portable audio player. Unlike many other victorians, dodgson used fantasy, imagination,humor and vivid visual descriptions and charts to teach logic to students of all ages from young children like alice to high school teachers in girls schools he promoted logic to all sexes. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. Lewis carrolls the game of logic the british library. That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight.
Buy symbolic logic dover recreational math new issue of 1896 ed. Lewis carroll the game of logic classic literature. Carrolls career in education was troubled by a bad stammer. The mad hatters riddle remains one of lewis carroll s most enduring puzzles. Pretty interesting and unusual approach, albeit his thing with tables and red and black tokens completely breaks with large amounts of sets even four sets are unusable. In addition to his wellknown childrens literature, dodgsoncarroll was an academic mathematician who worked in mathematical logic. Lewis carroll 18321898 was born at daresbury in chesire into a wealthy family.
This book has been extremely helpful to me in writing my phd thesis on dodgson carroll and his remarkable didactic approach. The poems jabberwocky and the hunting of the snark are classified in the genre of literary nonsense. Known for pointing out the absurdities of life in his fiction and poetry, carroll a pseudonym for charles. The game of logic by lewis carroll, paperback barnes. Lewis carroll, special edition, random house abebooks. Below is a list of carrolls books in order of when they. Follow a girl named alice down the rabbit hole into a place of wonder where oddities, logic and wordplay rule supreme. I can easily cite a couple dozen books that mention him or quote from his books.
He was noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. Dont let the title of the first work mislead youthis isnt about modern symbolic logic but about. Lewis carrolls first novel was his most famous work alices adventures in wonderland, which was published in 1865. In order to describe the ideas and principles of logic in a way that makes them easy and accessible, carroll designed his book around the idea of a game.
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