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1. Lewis Carroll's ciphers: The literary connections

Author

Abeles, Francine F.

Subjects
*CIPHERS, *MATHEMATICS, *ANAGRAMS
Abstract

Abstract: Charles L. Dodgson, who lectured on mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford University, constructed ciphers that were state of the art in his time. In poems and letters he demonstrated a great talent for creating acrostics and anagrams. In this paper I describe the ciphers closely and argue that their creation was intertwined with his word game inventions. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Published
2005
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2. Lewis Carroll's ciphers: The literary connections

Author

Francine F. Abeles

Subjects
Poetry, Logarithm, business.industry, Applied Mathematics, Variant Beaufort, Cryptography, Vigenère, Baynes, Linguistics, GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS, Dodgson, Anagrams, Beaufort, Cipher, State (computer science), business, Algorithm, Carroll, The Alphabet Cipher, Word (computer architecture), Mathematics
Abstract

Charles L. Dodgson, who lectured on mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford University, constructed ciphers that were state of the art in his time. In poems and letters he demonstrated a great talent for creating acrostics and anagrams. In this paper I describe the ciphers closely and argue that their creation was intertwined with his word game inventions.

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