Alice's adventures in algebra: Wonderland solved
Monte Davis
montedavis at verizon.net
Sun Mar 7 09:27:21 CST 2010
Dave Monroe pointed to:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391.600-alices-adventures-in-alge
bra-wonderland-solved.html
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Thanks, Dave! A very good article, and in passing (obAtD) a good sketch of
how Hamilton's quaternions were received at their introduction. She's
absolutely right that almost everything else Dodgson wrote was dull -- that
he needed a pinch of spite to be interesting.
(Saw Burton's Alice yesterday. Good, not great, with some "updating" that
didn't offend me but didn't add much)
-Monte
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