M1M1 Treasure Hunt

The M1M1 treasure hunt, week 9



The Adventures of Aless in Wonderland: Chapter 7


"What a long strange trip it's been!" thought Aless. "Maybe I'll just rest under this tree for a moment. These Wonderland people - they're quite clever in their way, but they can be so very irritating."

Through drooping eyelids, Aless considered the Wonderlanders. Most recently, Humpty Dumpty, hairless and careless, who disappointingly had not provided a password, nor even directions to escape the strange land. "Though this be madness, yet there is methods in it," Aless pondered, and recalled others who had been more helpful.

There was the Queen of Hearts, who, with probability one, was too fond of decapitation. But she certainly understood packs of cards and her password had been quite practical:
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"Maybe I should have paid more attention to her, but there's no use crying over spilled milk. Does it really matter how likely it is that I cried because I spilled the milk, or that I spilled the milk because I was crying? Either way, I'm upset and there's a mess on the floor."

And then, the Hatter, who favoured fastidiously firm foundations, loathed lax logic and preferred precise proofs. He had helpfully directed Aless towards the founding father of Analysis:
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And then those argumentative algebraists, pure of purpose, the dual duellers, the inseparable TweedleLie and TweedleBeck. Aless had never actually spoken to them, but they too had pointed the way towards a famous Republican groupie...
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