My presentation on the subtext in Alice in Wonderland. I make the claim that Alice in Wonderland contains criticism of Projective Geometry, Abstract Algebra and other forms of abstract math.

1. ‘Everything’s got a
moral, if only you can
find it’ the Duchess
The Hidden Meaning of Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass

2. Charles Ludwig
Dodson

3. Down the Rabbit Hole

4. The
Mouses’s
Tale

5. Pig and Pepper
Chapter 6

6. Richard of
Gloucester
Advanced and became king
because of a duchess who
had no sons.
His symbol the boar.

7. A Mad Tea-Party
Chapter 7

8. Mortimer, Earl of
March

9. The Queen’s Croquet
Ground
Chapter 8

10. The War of the Roses Reference
Why else would it warrant beheading?

11. Off with his head and set
it on the York Gates!
Queen Margaret commands, "Off with the
crown, and, with the crown, his head:”

12. ‘Sentence first, then
evidence!”

13. Lion versus Unicorn

14. Max Müller
All religions come from one
original religion that
worshipped objects in the sky.

16. Politics is so
booooorrriiinggggg!

17. Dr. Littledale, ‘Max M. is a
Sun-God!’

19. Less Wrong
www.lesswrong.com

20. Night School
www.getnightschooled.com

21. Lewis Carroll

22. Read
Between the
Lines!
I’m a ruler of all that I see;
But, I don’t see enough an
that’s the trouble with me!
That cat should not be here,
He should not be about,
He should not be in when
your mother is out!

23. Symbolic
Logic

24. Logic Games

25. Limits and
Paradoxes

26. ‘Rivals’!?

27. Deck of
Cards

28. Down the Rabbit Hole
Chapter 1

29. This misses the
point.

30. ‘I wonder if I shall shrink
forever or go out like a
light.’
A limit and infinitesimals

31. Different Number System

32. The Pool of Tears
Chapter 2

33. ‘Four times five is twelve;
and, Four times six is
thirteen; and, Four times
seven is--oh dear!’
Change the base

34. A Caucus Race and the
Long-Tail/Tale
Chapter 3

35. Characters
Alice
Eaglet
Dodo
Duck
Lory
Alice
Edith
Do-Do-Dodson
Reverend Duckworth
Lorina

36. Advice from the Caterpillar
Chapter 5

37. ‘Keep your
temper.’
Keep your exact proportions

38. Arabic
al jebr e al mokabala
("algebra") =
restoration and
reduction
Psilociban didn’t
become popular until
tha last 100 years.

39. Pig and Pepper
Chapter 6

40. Jean Victor Poncelet
‘Let a figure be conceived to undergo a certain continuous variation, and
let some general property concerning it be granted as true, so long as the
variation is confined within certain limits; then the same property will
belong to all the successive states of the figure.’

41. When would that ever
happen!?
It’s either a baby or a
pig an infinite series of
tiny changes won’t
change that.
Continuity in projective
geometry
Math is useful if and
only if it helps us to
understand reality.
Everyone is doing their
job badly!

42. A Mad Tea-Party
Chapter 7

43. Graphing of Complex Numbers
Sqrt(-1) = i

44. William
Rowan
Hamilton
Developed Quarternions.
3 terms designate the 3-d
space and the fourth
designates t - time.
Without t-time, they would
only rotate like on a clock.

45. 4 types of
Irrationality
"It seemed (and still seems)
to me natural to connect this
extra-spatial unit with the
conception of time."
Time is annoyed and absent
from the tea party.

46. How is a Raven
like a Writing
Desk?
False Analogy

47. “I mean what I say, or, at
least, I say what I mean,
that’s the same thing
you know.”

48. A Grin Without A Cat is Numbers
without Reality
We’re all mad here.
I’m not.
Of course, you are. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be here.

49. Abstract
Algebra
‘With one exception, no word
or sign of arithmetic or
algebra has one atom of
meaning throughout this
chapter, the object of which is
symbols, and their laws of
combination, giving a
symbolic algebra.’

50. ‘I don’t
believe there
is one atom
of meaning
in it.’

51. He Was Wrong!

52. If you liked that …
…

53. Harry Potter
and the
Methods of
Rationality
www.hpmor.com

54. Sleep before Surrender!