Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Carroll’s Symbolic Attack on Mathematical Symbolism.

In 2009, a literature scholar, Melanie Bayley, proposed that Lewis Carroll’s famous books about Alice visiting the magical and illogical Wonderland were attempts to mock and critique the modern mathematics of the day. In this short paper, I aim to support Bayley’s thesis and expound upon Lewis Carroll’s artful use of symbolism to criticize excessive use of symbolism in mathematics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]