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Algebra In Wonderland

Posted at 8:10AM Wednesday 10 Mar 2010

Alice's adventures with the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and so on have often been assumed to be based purely on wild imagination.

Yet Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) most likely had real models for the strange happenings in Wonderland, too. He was a tutor in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and Alice's search for a beautiful garden can be neatly interpreted as a mishmash of satire directed at the advances taking place in Dodgson's field.

New York Times


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