A fine mathematical biography.John Allen Paulos, Just when we thought we knew everything about Lewis Carroll, here comes this insightful . . . scholarly . . . serious (John Butcher, ) biography that will appeal to fans everywhere. Fascinated by the inner life of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Robin Wilson, a Carroll scholar and a noted mathematics professor, has produced this revelatory bookfilled with more than one hundred striking and often playful illustrationsthat examines the many inspirations and sources for Carrolls fantastical writings, mathematical and otherwise. As Wilson demonstrates, Carroll made significant contributions to subjects as varied as voting patterns and the design of tennis tournaments, in the process creating large numbers of imaginative recreational puzzles based on mathematical ideas. 60 b/w illustrations