Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on this day in 1832. He was a mathematics professor at Oxford University in London who wrote books about the subject, especially symbolic logic and puzzles. But more than anything, he exemplified "connections" and was better known as Lewis Carroll, the author of the classic Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Not only was he a brilliant mathematician and noted author,  he was a man of religion who would include his humor, puns, and logic in his sermons. His was also an artist, becoming a well-known photography in the field's infancy, as well as an inventor.

He died thirteen days before his sixty-sixth birthday in 1898.

"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count." 

 from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass