Alice in the territory of disclosure
British writer Lewis Carroll needs no recommendation. Her two most famous works, the adventures of Alice in Wonderland and the Mirror where Alice discovered, are well-known books and her relationship with the world of mathematics has been written a lot. Alice Liddell are invented tales for the child (and her sisters), but they are not normal stories, they are very surreal and based on logic.
With the simple reading of both books the meaning given by the writer is barely reached. They have many mathematical, literary, cultural references of the time and, in some cases, of the Liddell family; many psychological interpretations have been found (or sought), some of them contradictory, and the degree of correctness of such interpretations is in doubt. But, despite the forgotten psychology, it is difficult to catch everything the text holds, and that's why the prestigious disseminator Martin Gardner wrote the book The Annotated Alice, to explain and explain Carroll's books.
The Annotated is a special publication of two prestigious books by Alice Carroll. Both texts are complete and Gardner's contributions are glosas shown next door. The result is a highly recommended publication: two reference books analyzed by a great disseminator.
And there are other interesting books related to the world of Alice. For example, mathematician Robert Wilson wrote Lewis Carroll in Numberland. This is a biography of Lewis Carroll based on the fondness for his mathematical games and puzzles. Carroll was a very interesting character. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a rather dark man in character (close to being a pedophile, according to some), but also an ingenious inventor of stories. Wilson analyzes in this book his life and the society of the time. And Carroll is a good guide book of the mathematical world.
And you can't leave Alice's world without mentioning her influence on disclosure, as the connection between writing and Carroll's logic has been a great inspiration. A good example is the book Alice in Quantumland by the writer Robert Gilmore. In this book, Alice travels to an admirable world, smaller than an atom; Gilmore makes a disclosure of quantum mechanics imitating Carroll's style.
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