Writer · 1832 – 1898

Lewis Carroll

Little-Known Facts

  • He invented the story of Alice to entertain a real girl, Alice Liddell, on a boating trip.
  • As a mathematician he published serious works on logic and geometry under his real name.

Myths & Misconceptions

Was Lewis Carroll really a mathematician?

Yes — under his real name, Charles Dodgson, he lectured in mathematics at Oxford and published works on logic and geometry.