On My Way to Class

One of the original 42 Tenniel Illustrations for Alice In Wonderland.


In honor of Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson: 27 January 1832-1898].

Oxford University Logician who gave us:

Alice In Wonderland (1865),

Condensation of Determinants (1866),

An Elementary Treatise on Determinants (1867),

Phantasmagoria (1869),

Through the Looking Glass (1871) with its Jaberwocky poem,

The Hunting of the SNARK (1876),

Theory of Proportional Representation (1884, 65 years before J. F. Nash, Jr.),

A Day-of-the-Week Algorithm (1887),

Curiosa Mathematica Part 1: A New Theory of Parallels (four editions 1888,1889,1890,1895),

and a lot of other good stuff such as

Symbolic Logic, Part 1: Elementary (1896); Part 2: Advanced (1977); Part 3: Transcendental (What was it to be?).


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