Karowin Zap's Math Quotes Page
To see our lastest games, please visit our main webpage at www.karowinzap.com
Good Character driven stories with mathematics have:
Drama! Emotion! Conflict! A Climax!and of course, they have some math!
Below are quotes from some good math stories.
A Poem by Lewis Carroll
"They told me you had been been to her,
And mentioned me to him:
She gave me a good character,
But said I could not swim...
I gave her one, they gave him two,
You gave us three or more;
They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before.
If I or she should chance to be
Involved in this affair,
He trusts you to set them free
Exactly as we were."
From Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) by Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Source: Project Gutenberg EBook No. 11. Release Date Jun 27, 2008. Most Recently Updated Nov 10, 2024 Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
KNOT II. ELIGIBLE APARTMENTS
from A Tangle Tale by Lewis Carroll
'...in one Square they had seen no less than four cards, in different houses, all announcing in flaming capitals "ELIGIBLE APARTMENTS." "So there's plenty of choice, after all, you see," said spokesman Hugh....
"He didn't say anything about pudding," said Hugh, "—and here's the Square," as they turned a corner and came into sight of the "eligible apartments."
"It is a Square!" was Balbus' first cry of delight, as he gazed around him. "Beautiful! Beau-ti-ful! Equilateral! And rectangular!"
The boys looked round with less enthusiasm. "Number nine is the first with a card," said prosaic Lambert; but Balbus would not so soon awake from his dream of beauty.
"See, boys!" he cried. "Twenty doors on a side! What symmetry! Each side divided into twenty-one equal parts! It's delicious!"
"Shall I knock, or ring?" said Hugh, looking in some perplexity at a square brass plate which bore the simple inscription "RING ALSO."'
From KNOT II: ELIGIBLE APARTMENTS in A Tangled Tale by Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Illustrator: Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett), 1851-1928. Source: Project Gutenberg Ebook No. 29042. Release date June 5, 2009. Most Recently update Jan. 5, 2021. Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA.
