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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 01:08 PM EST |
In 1854 graduated Bachelor of Arts, Oxford, with first-class honours in
the Final Honours School of Mathematics. His talent as a mathematician
won him the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship in 1855, which he
continued to hold for the next twenty-six years. Dodgson worked
primarily in the fields of geometry, matrix algebra, mathematical logic
and recreational mathematics, producing nearly a dozen books under
his real name, q.v. Dodgon's Method on the theory of elections.
As a condition of his Fellowship at Christ Church he was expected to
train for the Anglican priesthood. He belatedly took deacon's orders
on 22 December 1861, but dropped out of further progress. His
stammer, partial deafness, and self-professed guilt at his own
unworthiness as a sinner have been offered as reasons. Also his
association with the theatre and willingness to engage in public
controversies was not welcomed by the church authorities.
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