. Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there . ore,they always went from under histeaching with a genuine love for never a wonderful mathe-matician, as far as he went his workwas accurate and its teaching valuegood. lie did some original work te books for wise heads withsuch titles as t •aiti-ustition of Deter-minants and Mathematica. Through much of his work, however,there runs a vein of humor, a readi-adran,_ ness to see the absurd side of a ques-tion, that lessens somewhat the valueof his serious productions. This play-ful attitude toward his chosen subject i
. Through the looking-glass, and what Alice found there . ore,they always went from under histeaching with a genuine love for never a wonderful mathe-matician, as far as he went his workwas accurate and its teaching valuegood. lie did some original work te books for wise heads withsuch titles as t •aiti-ustition of Deter-minants and Mathematica. Through much of his work, however,there runs a vein of humor, a readi-adran,_ ness to see the absurd side of a ques-tion, that lessens somewhat the valueof his serious productions. This play-ful attitude toward his chosen subject is illus-trated by his Monkey and Weight have given various answers toit. so there is still a chance for some bright mindto reach the correct one. A rope is supposed to be hung over a wheelfixed to the roof of a building; at one end of therope a weight is fixed, which exactly counterbal-ances a monkey which is hanging on to the otherend. Suppose that the monkey begins to climbthe rope, what will be the result?. (>yLewis A Biographical Sketch Often he wrote just for the sake of the joke, aswhen he gave the following suggestions for addedaccommodations for the department of mathe-matics at Christ Church: A. A very large room for calculating Great-est Common Measure. To this a small one mightbe attached for Least Common Multiple: this,however, might be dispensed with. B. A piece of open ground for keeping Rootsand practicing their extraction ; it would be advis-able to keep Square Roots by themselves as theircorners are apt to damage others. C. A room for reducing fractions to theirLowest Terms. This should be provided with a cellar for keeping the Lowest Terms when found.# # # D. A large room which might be darkened, and fitted up with a magic lantern, for the pur-pose of exhibiting circulating Decimals in the actof circulation. E. A narrow strip of ground, railed off andcarefully leveled, for testing practically whether Parallel Lines meet or not:for t
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