Comics + Music + Video: "Talkin' 2x2=5 Blues"

[Marek Bennett]

Here's a recent music video of an old 19th century algebraic "proof" that 2x2=5:

Source = Oxford mathematician Charles Luttwidge Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll).

Musical approach = inspired by Woody Guthrie.

The comics version originally appeared as part of my MathematiComics series.

The Abraham Lincoln reference has to do with Tony Kushner's insertion of Euclidean geometry into Spielberg's movie "Lincoln" -- See the notes at the bottom of the original comics post for more links.