『이상한 나라의 앨리스』에 나타난 수학적 요소의 함의

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This paper aims to make a mathematical approach to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in which there exist many mathematical elements. While reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, we find that her body is changed into grown big and shrunken small. In the Wonderland, the numerical concept insinuates these changes look differently and this fact is that the correction of calculation does not seem to be important in the fictional places. Due to her paradoxical, ironical, and incorrect calculation, the message she intends to deliver looks like to be communicated only to the readers of fairy tales or fantasy. This kind of nonsensical and nonconceptual situation in nowhere place can be consistently found all throughout her changes. But it seems to tell us that this wonderland is full of possibilities just to generate mathematical expression with number. Interestingly, however, the author’s fictional attempts could be said to be disparate and extraneous pleasures in terms of numerical arrangements and geometric phases when there Alice got ‘down’ three times into the hare hall. On the contrary, mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson as the real author logically expressed his knowledge based on mathematical symbols so that we could tell the events in the wonderland were possible in fraction and differentiation of her movement and metamorphosis. In this case it is not exaggeration to say that the words and languages are no other than productive nonsense and that the mathematical logics employed here looks them paradoxical because all situations play a vital role to create significant meanings. Therefore, we can see that the nonsensical logic equates the materials of mathematics and that the paradoxical events become the elements of mathematical expression to make literary implication.

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