Comment of the Day: Fictional Maps Edition

In reaction tothis post on Bonini ’s Paradox — the more dead a model or map represent something the less useful it is — commentertamnonlinearpoints us to someone else who told us the same narrative through fiction : Lewis Carroll .

https://gizmodo.com/boninis-paradox-proves-that-you-cant-make-a-useful-an-1445082177

In Lewis Carroll ’s books , he had two great example of mathematical function . In The Hunting of the Snark , the crew of the sauceboat had a map that dispensed with the unnecessary misdirection of ceremonious marking – the map was a perfect and absolute dummy . In Sylvie and Bruno , on the other hand , the inhabitant of a small country had a perfectly precise mathematical function with scale of 1 in = 1 in , but found that it was difficult to unroll , as the farmers complain that it covered the crops , and besides , the real domain served nearly as well .

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