Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832–1898) was an English
conservative mathematician and university professor who was
critical of liberal inroads into mathematics and, as Lewis
Carroll, wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel,
Through the Looking-Glass (which contains the poem Jabberwocky),
in protest of them. Carroll also wrote the long nonsense poem,
The Hunting of the Snark. In addition to writing these stories
and poems, Charles Dodgson also was a photographer. Dodgson
wrote a play about geometry called Euclid and His Modern Rivals.
Dodgson's literary works are full of puns and jokes based on
logic. Computer programmers are fond of quoting the King's
directions to the White Rabbit, who asks "Where shall I begin,
your Majesty" and is told "Begin at the beginning, and go on
until you come to the end: then stop." Many of the poems in the
Alice books are sly parodies of overly-solemn poems that were
popular in Victorian times, but almost forgotten now. Dodgson's
parodies have, in fact, survived b