Definition for Carroll, Lewis
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Carroll, Lewis (1832 to 1898): The pen-name of British mathematician Charles Dodgson. He studied at Oxford, took orders in 1861, and became a lecturer in mathematics (1855-81). His nursery tale, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1872), quickly became classics. As a mathematician, he wrote an important work on the mathematics of majority rule voting. P.L. Heath, in MacMillan’s Encyclopedia of Philosophy, gives a remarkably detailed—and amusing—history of philosophical ‘readings’ of Carroll’s works, including Alice’s ‘discovery’ of Frege’s sinn/bedeutung distinction.
