Mr Tompkins in Wonderland

About this book

In "Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland" his protagonist is a bank clerk who strays into a physics lecture. Of course, Mr. Tompkins does not understand much of what the professor is saying - his skills in mathematics are limited to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, "of which he uses the first two in his profession". But he picks up enough interesting impressions to have a vivid dream related to the lecture. He likes his dream and comes back to enjoy additional lectures which in turn inspire new dreams.