We Are Only Slightly Amused
Jun. 5th, 2011 06:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowIt is said that Queen Victoria, after reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was so delighted that she requested that she get an early copy of the author's next book - which turned out to be a treatise on determinants.
I just received a message from Amazon touting a book I might be interested in, since it was written by Edwin A. Abbott, author of the classic mathematical romance Flatland. The book? Miscellanea Evangelica: Volume 2, Christ's Miracles of Feeding.
Automated recommendations still have a long way to go.
I just received a message from Amazon touting a book I might be interested in, since it was written by Edwin A. Abbott, author of the classic mathematical romance Flatland. The book? Miscellanea Evangelica: Volume 2, Christ's Miracles of Feeding.
Automated recommendations still have a long way to go.
