The idea that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland contains hidden mathematical structure is hardly new, and may or may not have merit, although it seems to me that many of the examples cited in Melanie Bayley's article are a bit of a stretch. I can't help but wonder how much has been read into the work over the years by people who looked for such structure. If a non-mathematician had written the same book, would we even be having this discussion?
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