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Annals of Mathematics and Physics

Where Things go the other Way Around

H Ronald Pulliam

Published Jun 24, 2025• 0 citations
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Lewis Carroll had a lot to say about what is real and what is not [1]. In Through the Looking Glass, he tells the reader that Alice was in the drawing room, curled up with her cat in the corner of a great armchair.
DOI
10.17352/amp.000152

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