A Tangled Tale

About “A Tangled Tale”

A Tangled Tale is a collection of mathematical puzzles presented in the form of stories, originally published in The Monthly Packet magazine and later compiled into a book in 1885. The tales cover various subjects such as the cataloguing of paintings, the number of times trains pass each other on a circular track, and the most efficient way to rent individual rooms on a square, accompanied by an appendix containing Lewis Carroll’s answers and commentary on reader submissions.