Quaternion Definition: Lewis Carroll's Mad Tea Party
Chapter 1

The real Alice and the golden afternoon

Chapter 2

The missing characters Disney skipped

Chapter 3

Hidden math and logic puzzles

Chapter 4

Dark Victorian satire and political undercurrents

Ch 3 · Hidden math and logic puzzles
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galleta The Caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland represents a debate over Victorian mathematics.

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galleta The mathematics behind the Mad Hatter's tea party

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galleta Charles Dodgson's mathematical logic behind Alice's chaotic times tables

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galleta Caterpillar's Symbolic Algebra

Keep your temper wasn't telling her to be polite, It meant stay in math proportion at a steady height.

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The chaotic times tables

galleta Alice's worried recital that four times five is twelve and four times six is thirteen works perfectly in base eighteen and twenty-one

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Quiz

Under Lewis Carroll's mathematical progression formula, what base would 'four times seven' require to equal fourteen?

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What mathematical base system makes Alice's statement 'four times five is twelve' completely correct?

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What looks like nonsense is often just strict adherence to unfamiliar rules.

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The Mad Hatter's timeless tea party

galleta Without the dimension of Time, three characters rotate endlessly around the tea table

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Which Irish mathematician's theories on quaternions and 'pure time' did Lewis Carroll mock with the Mad Hatter's tea party?

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Why are the Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Dormouse stuck forever having tea at six o'clock?

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Fun Fact

Carroll's math: Charles Dodgson was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, for 26 years, writing books on geometry and voting theory.

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The baby turning into a pig
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galleta Rock the crying baby to discover the strange pig transformation Disney left out of the book.

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Quiz

What famous modern saying describes the topological equivalence that Lewis Carroll poked fun at?

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What branch of mathematics, which studies shapes deforming without tearing, did Lewis Carroll mock via the baby-to-pig transformation?

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Glossary
quaternion (noun)
A mathematical system that extends complex numbers to four dimensions, representing rotations in three-dimensional space. Lewis Carroll satirized this concept in 1865 through the endless rotation of his mad tea party.

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Quiz

What did the Caterpillar mean when he told Alice to 'keep her temper' in Victorian mathematical slang?

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Which Victorian mathematician's work on symbolic algebra was Lewis Carroll likely satirizing during Alice's size-changing scenes?

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Gossip

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