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glonq ◴[] No.40213790[source]
I wonder if the usage of Alice & Wonderland takes inspiration from Douglas Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid" ?
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1. abdullahkhalids ◴[] No.40214991[source]
Lewis Carrol's Alice in Wonderland features a number of logical and mathematical puzzles [1]

He also wrote What the Tortoise Said to Achilles (1895) in which the paradoxes of Zeno are discussed.

So it's more correct to say that GEB and this article are originally inspired by Lewis Carrol's work.

[1] I wrote a short article for my university magazine a long time ago. Some interesting references at the end https://abd.tiddlyspot.com/#%5B%5BMathematical%20Adventures%...