A Tangled Tale

The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly - giving their names - was not always well received. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine. Arthur B.