Project Gutenberg
2009-06-05
Public domain in the USA.
588
Carroll, Lewis
1832
1898
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge
Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)
1851
1928
Frost, Arthur Burdett
A Tangled Tale
Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Produced by Chris Curnow, Carla Foust, Lindy Walsh and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net.
Music transcribed by Linda Cantoni.
"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.)
en
Mathematical recreations
PR
PZ
QA
Text
Mathematics
Browsing: Literature
Browsing: Mathematics
242542
242574
2024-10-12T12:52:12.921254
2023-09-13T04:23:15.968928
text/html
text/html
246041
2021-01-05T04:41:20
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
709453
2021-01-05T04:41:20
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
application/zip
713843
2024-10-12T12:52:20.035199
application/epub+zip
715063
2024-10-12T12:52:14.365247
application/epub+zip
111832
2024-10-12T12:52:13.483252
application/epub+zip
666169
2024-10-12T12:52:23.637208
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
637535
2024-10-12T12:52:18.962210
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
177900
2022-09-13T12:47:54.435625
application/x-mobipocket-ebook
184174
184017
2024-10-12T12:52:11.841265
2023-09-13T04:23:15.111933
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
text/plain
183998
2021-01-05T04:41:20
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
72552
2021-01-05T04:41:20
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
application/zip
184053
2021-01-05T04:41:20
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
72514
2021-01-05T04:41:20
text/plain; charset=us-ascii
application/zip
22566
2024-10-12T12:52:23.789175
application/rdf+xml
18356
2024-10-12T12:52:13.586242
image/jpeg
2689
2024-10-12T12:52:13.529263
image/jpeg
727501
2024-10-12T12:52:12.969251
application/octet-stream
application/zip
Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at
https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog
en.wikipedia
en.wikipedia