Lewis Carroll

"Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?"

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Source: The Dynamics of a Parti-cle (1865)

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Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll

Author, Mathematician

Lewis Carroll was an English writer and mathematician, best known for his imaginative works like 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,' which explore themes of identity and reality.

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