Symbolic Logic
by Lewis Carroll
Publisher: Macmillan and co 1897
ISBN/ASIN: 0517523833
Description:
Here you see Carroll the mathematician at his playful best. Don't let the title mislead you -- this isn't about modern symbolic logic but about ways of expressing classical logic with symbols. It's loaded with amusing problems to delight any mathematical puzzler.
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