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Lewis Carroll's ciphers: The literary connections
2005
Advances in Applied Mathematics
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Charles L. Dodgson, who lectured on mathematics at Christ Church in Oxford University, constructed ciphers that were state of the art in his time. In poems and letters he demonstrated a great talent for creating acrostics and anagrams. In this paper I describe the ciphers closely and argue that their creation was intertwined with his word game inventions.
doi:10.1016/j.aam.2004.06.006
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