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The Math Wars, Lewis Carroll Style
Lewis Carroll in 1863, photographed by Oscar Gustave Rejlander. Image: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Carroll’s book was a salvo in the “math wars” of the day, the subject of which was how best to teach geometry. Euclid was the standard textbook in private schools that taught mathematics, but many people found it wanting. To them, it w [...]
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