The Mathematical World of C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

BOOK LAUNCH Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) is best known for his Alice books. But his day job was as a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church in Oxford. What mathematics was he interested in? - and how good a mathematician was he? This illustrated lecture and book launch will attempt to answer these questions by outlining his mathematical life, labours and legacy in the context of Victorian Oxford. A lecture by Professor Robin Wilson, Emeritus Gresham Professor of Geometry 21 October The...