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Lewis Carroll
Mathematicians, traditionally, are more of a right-brained type of thinkers. Artists and writers, comparingly, have more of a left brain train of thought. Lewis Carroll (or Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was an exception. This mathematician and writer had both qualities. He wrote a number of famous books and poems that ra ....
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.... and the Butler scholarship. According to this scholarship, he was to remain unmarried and proceed to holy orders. Which he did, for he never married. In 1855, he was appointed lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church. A position he held until 1881. Six years later he was ordained a deacon, but he never proceeded to a priest’s orders, probably because he stammered. He did, however, preach from time to time, mostly to children.
The next part of this life was dedicated to his writings. Alice and Wonderland was started as a picnic story as he told three of the Lidd ....
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