Charles Dodgson Research Paper

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Charles Dodgson or better known as Lewis Carroll for writing "Alice's adventures in wonderland" was not only a magnificent writer but a talented mathematician as well. Charles Dodgson was very affected with mathematics during his thought process of writing. For example, he was very much interested in Geometry, so much that he used it in his process to create a late comedy titled "Euclid and His Modern Rivals." He used this title to create a defense called "Euclid's Elements" to teach Geometry. He used his strong love for academics to create a new way of teaching using sly unnoticed connections between math and literature, thus creating a new way of teaching logic and even chemistry. Not only was his work gratefully impacted by math, he

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