A Tangled Tale
Lewis Carroll is best known for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'. It is less widely known that he worked as a lecturer for mathematics at Christ Church college, Oxford for 27 years. 'A tangled tale' merges his two talents as storyteller and mathematician. It consists of 10 short humorous stories which present one or more mathematical problems. The 10 'knots' as they are called, were first published in 'The Monthly Packet' magazine between April 1880 and March 1885, where readers were invited to solve the problems, and the solution was discussed in a later issue. (Summary by Availle)
Genre(s): Short Stories, Humor, Mathematics
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Preface. Knot I Excelsior | Availle |
00:04:31 |
Play 02 | Knot II Eligible Apartments | Availle |
00:09:19 |
Play 03 | Knot III Mad Mathesis | Availle |
00:06:59 |
Play 04 | Knot IV The Dead Reckoning | Availle |
00:08:29 |
Play 05 | Knot V Oughts and Crosses | Availle |
00:07:57 |
Play 06 | Knot VI Her Radiancy | Availle |
00:09:30 |
Play 07 | Knot VII Petty Cash | Availle |
00:08:23 |
Play 08 | Knot VIII De Omnibus Rebus | Availle |
00:05:53 |
Play 09 | Knot IX A Serpent with Corners | Availle |
00:08:47 |
Play 10 | Knot X Chelsea Buns | Availle |
00:12:24 |
Play 11 | Answers to Knot I | Availle |
00:11:05 |
Play 12 | Answers to Knot II | Availle |
00:09:32 |
Play 13 | Answers to Knot III | Availle |
00:09:48 |
Play 14 | Answers to Knot IV | Availle |
00:07:44 |
Play 15 | Answers to Knot V | Availle |
00:06:03 |
Play 16 | Answers to Knot VI | Availle |
00:09:30 |
Play 17 | Answers to Knot VII | Availle |
00:31:12 |
Play 18 | Answers to Knot VIII | Availle |
00:04:17 |
Play 19 | Answers to Knot IX | Availle |
00:09:42 |
Play 20 | Answers to Knot X | Availle |
00:17:28 |