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   Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 14:57:00 JST Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr

   Lewis Carroll had to have been such a narcissist. He believed he was so good at math, that when people invented better math he started a whole campaign about how it was fake news, and then wrote a whole book series about it.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 14:56:59 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @RickiTarr wait he campaigned against what kind of math?

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     Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 15:14:59 JST Ricki Crush Bandicute Tarr

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     • 🐟🐠🐡🐙🦑ptoothfish🦑🐙🐡🐠🐟

     @ptoothfish So this was me being a bit hyperbolic, but was inspired by this article:

     https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427391-600-alices-adventures-in-algebra-wonderland-solved/#:~:text=To%20Dodgson%2C%20though%2C%20the%20new,to%20teach%20to%20an%20undergraduate.

     And this one on NPR:

     https://www.npr.org/2010/03/13/124632317/the-mad-hatters-secret-ingredient-math#:~:text=Carroll%2C%20whose%20real%20name%20was,to%20the%20discipline%20of%20mathematics.

     Honestly, he was probably just resistant to change and conservative with mathematics, and a better writer than mathematician.

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     🐟🐠🐡🐙🦑ptoothfish🦑🐙🐡🐠🐟 (ptoothfish@mastodon.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Nov-2023 15:15:00 JST 🐟🐠🐡🐙🦑ptoothfish🦑🐙🐡🐠🐟

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     @RickiTarr can you link me to any backstory on this? everything i can find about his maths work is hagiographical… he certainly struggled with the difference between 11 and 35 😬

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