AIW

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I have this terrible cold for three days now and I'm actually hoping for it to get worse, y'know to have a few days off from school. Three or four days would be fine.

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My maths teacher, Mr.Emson (the guy looks like the old man from UP and Drew Carey), told the class something that caught my interest. We were learning about complex numbers (imaginary numbers in other words), and he said the book Alice in Wonderland is actually a parody of Mathematics.

Alice in wonderland (or Alice's adventures in wonderland to be precise) is written by Charles Ludwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll'. Mr.Dodgson here is a mathematician. At that time, complex numbers are new to mathematicians and can solve difficult problems easily. Because complex numbers a.k.a Imaginary numbers are not real numbers (hence the name 'imaginary'), some mathematicians including Dodgson have difficulties getting used to them. Simply put, Dodgson didn't like complex numbers. Well not just complex numbers, there are other mathematical stuffs that he also didn't like and so he wrote Alice in wonderland in order to ridicule these things.

So the bizarre world of wonderland is actually based on the weirdness of Maths. If you read the book, Dodgson made a few references to Maths. You can check wikipedia or google it if you want examples.

"So will the new Alice in wonderland movie have any references to maths?" is the question I had in mind when I was watching it last night. Sadly, there is little/none. Quite disappointing really. I don't wanna spoil anything. Overall the movie was OK, i guess, just not the Alice in wonderland that I was hoping for.