![]() ![]() He continued to write on mathematical topics and completed the first volume of his Symbolic Logic. But in 1882, he was made Curator of the Common Room and was persuaded to remain there until 1892. His most famous mathematical work, Euclid and His Modern Rivals, had been published the year before, and in 1881, he proposed to resign his academic post so that he could give full time to writing and pursuing mathematical studies. After the death of his deeply religious father in 1868, Carroll was able to propose a one-third cut in his salary as a mathematical lecturer. The success of Alice (1865) enabled Carroll to forego his activities as a deacon. One may look for Freudian or Jungian interpretations if one chooses to do so, but in the final analysis, the story functions as comedy, with dialogue used largely for Carroll to play on words, mixing fantasy with burlesque actions. The story was in no sense intended to be didactic its only purpose was to entertain. Alice was the work of a mathematician and logician who wrote as both a humorist and as a limerist. ![]()
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