Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), an obscure Oxford mathematician. Author of "Symbolic Logic", "Memoria Technica", "The condensation (factoring) of determinants" and "A discussion of the various methods of procedure in conducting elections".
Oh, and a couple of strange books for children called "
AlicesAdventuresInWonderland" and "
ThroughTheLookingGlass, and what Alice found there", which for some reason have outlasted his mathematical works. They're certainly more amusing.
One or the other of these two personalities also had a deep fondness for both hashish and very young pouty girls. Hardly the kind of thing you could base a Disney movie on...
Dodgson was also a talented, and progressive, photographer (often of those self-same pouty girls, and especially
AliceLiddell); see
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/photo.html.
See also
HuntingOfTheSnark
A major contribution to software design is the quote:
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
--you know who
Whereupon Humpty's pair, disliking the word did not come from the SystemMetaphor, was impossible to pronounce, and did not describe the concept it named, gave him a little nudge.
See also: (from the excellent Mac
Tutor History of Mathematics archive)
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Mathematicians/Dodgson.html
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