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Muqabla, muqabla

(NewSci) ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was also a parody of modern mathematics. Carroll’s day job was Oxford math prof, and Arabic’s ‘al jebr e al mokabla’ describes Alice’s shrinking and growing.
manish on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 › Tweet this › Facebook this › Reddit this › Link