Lewis Carroll, the nom de plume of the Rev. Charles L. Dodgson, a mathematics lecturer at Oxford, was also an innovator in recreational mathematics, magic, puzzles, cryptography, and inventions. His appearances in Scientific American began with…
In 1962 Martin Gardner published an article about a remarkable poem. As far as I know, his is the only scholarly article that has ever been published pertaining to this poem. There is a rich and particular connection between poetry and the more…