Lewis Carroll's ciphers: The literary connections

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 thei...

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Cipher
Cryptography
Dodgson
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Game theory
Logarithm
Mathematics
Number theory
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