ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
Better known as Lewis Carroll, Charles Dodgson was a logician, and also an Anglican priest and author.
He is best known nowadays for his Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, not (on the surface) works of mathematics.
His actual mathematical works were idiosyncratic, often focused on making mathematical concepts (in particular, logical syllogisms) accessible to children.
One of the first to treat logical elements with symbols, thus contributing to the birth of symbolic logic.
It is worth that Lewis Carroll can be considered to be a modernisation of le wis carle, which is approximately old English for the wise man.
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Nationality
English
History
- Born: 27 January 1832
- Died: 14 January 1898
Theorems and Definitions
Books and Papers
- 1865: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- 1871: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There
- 1874: The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits)
- 1879: Euclid and his Modern Rivals
- 1889: Sylvie and Bruno
- 1893: Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
- 1896: Symbolic Logic Part I
- Posthumous: Symbolic Logic Part II
Both of these last two are available repackaged as Lewis Carroll's Symbolic Logic, edited by William Warren Bartley, III.
