Alice in Wonderland on This Day in History

This Day In History: Alice in Wonderland was published on this day in 1865. Its enduring success was probably due to Lewis Carroll's savvy marketing. Like Disney would later do, Carroll allowed for brand licensing and product tie-ins. Alice in Wonderland tins, lunch pails and shirts are still available online. As a result, the book has never been out of print. Lewis Carroll was also a noted mathematician, so much so that math made its way into the book. In fact, pop math guru Martin Gardner published an Annotated Alice.

Lewis Carroll also wrote: A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry (1860)

The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically (1858 and 1868)

An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations

Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879), both literary and mathematical in style

Symbolic Logic Part I

Symbolic Logic Part II (published posthumously)

The Alphabet Cipher (1868)

The Game of Logic (1887)

Curiosa Mathematica I (1888)

Curiosa Mathematica II (1892)

The Theory of Committees and Elections, collected, edited, analysed, and published in 1958, by Duncan Black

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