Mathematics Lecture

Professor Robin Wilson, professor of Mathematics at The Open University and fellow of Keeble College Oxford, gave a lecture to an invited audience of about 90 Sixth Form mathematicians. He spoke about the life of Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll, and introduced the audience to some of his mathematical work. Lewis Carroll is known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, but behind the famous pseudonym was a mathematical lecturer at Oxford University with remarkably diverse talents. Besides the Alice books, he wrote many others including poems, pamphlets and articles. He was a skilled mathematician, logician and pioneering photographer and invented a wealth of mathematical games and puzzles.