Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll in 1863

Lewis Carroll was the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), a British writer, poet, logician (mathematics expert), Anglican clergyman, and photographer. He was born in Daresbury, Cheshire. He is most famous for his story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland which he told to a young friend, Alice Liddell, when he took the girl and two of her sisters on a boat trip. Alice enjoyed the story and asked Dodgson to write it down. Carroll then wrote a second story about Alice called Through the Looking Glass. Both stories are still popular with people all over the world. He was a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford, and wrote some books on the subject. He died of pneumonia in Guildford, Surrey.

Works

Literary works A Tangled Tale Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Facts He thought he saw an elephant Rhyme? And Reason? (also published as Phantasmagoria) Pillow Problems Sylvie and Bruno Sylvie and Bruno Concluded The Hunting of the Snark (1876) Three Sunsets and Other Poems Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (includes "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter") (1871) What the Tortoise Said to Achilles

Mathematical works A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry (1860) The Fifth Book of Euclid Treated Algebraically (1858 and 1868) An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, With Their Application to Simultaneous Linear Equations and Algebraic Equations Euclid and his Modern Rivals (1879), both literary and mathematical in style Symbolic Logic Part I Symbolic Logic Part II (published posthumously) The Game of Logic Some Popular Fallacies about Vivisection Curiosa Mathematica I (1888) Curiosa Mathematica II (1892) The Theory of Committees and Elections, collected, edited, analyzed, and published in 1958, by Duncan Black