This Day in History: English writer Lewis Carroll was born on this day in 1832. Known for writing Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, Carroll was also a mathematician, photographer, inventor and Anglican deacon. He was such a mathematician he actually wrote 11 books on Arithmetic. In a 2010 op-ed for The New York Times, Melanie Bayley made a compelling case that Alice’s adventures parodied an incipient, conceptual math that featured imaginary numbers and quaternions.
Lewis Carroll was even suspected of being Jack the Ripper.
The full length 1951 animated Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland, was a financial flop.
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