Daily Quiz for August 23, 2008

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. English mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson is best known for writing the children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland under the pen name Lewis Carroll in 1865. Born in 1832, Dodgson lectured on mathematics at Oxford from 1855 to 1881 and made up the stories about Alice in Wonderland for his daughter Alice and her sisters. He wrote Through the Looking Glass in 1872 and other children's books. His most important mathematical work was the 1879 Euclid and His Modern Rivals. Also a skilled portrait photographer, Dodgson pioneered in the art of photographing children. He died in 1898.