Alice and Mathematics
To make Alice pop in and out-of a |" framework, built like a hoarding to |advertise her immortality, with much /more ease than she climbs through the looking glass is the achievement of Gor_don Crier, whose programme "Have You Read Alice in Wonderland?" was heard from 2YA the other Sunday night, with enjoyment by the many and possibly gnashing of teeth by the few. For we must at all costs be tolerant. To persons who have not read Alice this programme was, as it was intengzl to be, an excellent introduction to \oth the book and its author. To those who have
read Alice it was an excellent refresher course. To the word-perfect and the devotees of undiluted Dodgson was left the privilege of clicking the switch and retiring to a corner with a well-thumbed copy. I was pleased to hear that Mr. Crier agrees with me that it is perfectly logical and in fact natural rather than Surprising that the creator of Alice should be a professor of mathematics, for mathematicians delight in imposing logical form on the illogical.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 8
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182Alice and Mathematics New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 8
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