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Lewis Carroll's ciphers: The literary connections
- Source :
- Advances in Applied Mathematics. (4):697-708
- Publisher :
- Elsevier Inc.
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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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01968858
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in Applied Mathematics
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4a7f325368f7ea2683e85a3a8cb56e53
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aam.2004.06.006