The Universe in a Handkerchief

s/t: Lewis Carroll’s Mathematical Recreations, Games, Puzzles, and Word Plays
“Lewis Carroll was endlessly fascinated with puzzles of one sort or another his entire life. As a boy, he once traced out in the snow “a maze of such hopeless intricacy as almost to put its famous rival at Hampton Court in the shade.”” Carroll’s appeal is also universal, from the young to the old, from game enthusiasts to professional mathematicians. Martin Gardner brings together the most interesting of Lewis Carroll’s games and puzzles, some in verse, others discovered in diaries and letters, for the enjoyment of everyone for generations to come.