The Jabberwocky Was a Lark or The Mathematician Takes a Holiday
Joseph Jablonower · Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12 · 1933
When Humpty Dumpty turns his perch on the wall into a lecturer's platform and proceeds to popularize the highly technical “Jabberwocky,” he initiates his auditor into only those most obvious of the mathematician's tricks that are exemplified in the poem. He resorts to some of the same dodges on his own account. The present writing is offered as a comment on both the “Jabberwocky” and its commentator- a sort of square root of a negative number. (Eddington, Aldous Huxley, and Bernard Shaw have been setting the fashion of invoking that concept whenever an impossible trick is to be turned.)*