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2022

Alice in Wonderland

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Alice’S Adventures In Wonderland: Carroll’S Symbolic Attack On Mathematical Symbolism, Firdous Ahmad Mala Jan 2022

Alice’S Adventures In Wonderland: Carroll’S Symbolic Attack On Mathematical Symbolism, Firdous Ahmad Mala

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

In 2009, a literature scholar, Melanie Bayley, proposed that Lewis Carroll's famous books about Alice visiting the magical and illogical Wonderland were attempts to mock and critique the modern mathematics of the day. In this short paper, I aim to support Bayley's thesis and expound upon Carroll's artful use of symbolism to attack excessive use of symbolism in mathematics.