There’s a theory about Alice in Wonderland that Lewis Carroll was satirizing the absurdity of the increasingly abstract mathematics that was popping up at the time. Now, I don’t think that theory holds weight–Alice in Wonderland doesn’t need to be anything other than a whimsical children’s book–but he did apparently write some things along those lines. This post is a pretty good example of something that would throw him into a rage.
Comment on Is this a triangle?
TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Two things I need to ask:
- What inspired this question, exactly, and
- Can I have some, please?
frezik@midwest.social 1 week ago
november@lemmy.vg 1 week ago
I was reading Matt Parker’s new trigonometry book and they made some remark about triangles in spherical geometry and I went “wait, what if you did this”