Mathematician:Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

1832 - 1898

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.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 27 January 1832
 * Died: 14 January 1898

Books and Papers

 * Symbolic Logic Part I (1896)
 * Symbolic Logic Part II (posthumous)