Lewis Kerroll (1832-1898) nom de plume of the English writer,
mathematician and logician of Charlza Lyutvidzha Dodzhsona.
Author of popular stories for children «Alice in wonderland»
(1865) and «In Zazerkal'e» (1871). The advanced studies of
Kerrolla were anticipated by some ideas of mathematical logic.
Lewis Kerroll gave birth on January, 27, 1832 in Darsberi, a
county Cheshir, England in the having many children
monogynopaedium of anglican priest. Finishing with a
difference the college of Church Dominical (Christ Church
College) the Oxford university on mathematics and classic
languages and getting a master's (Master of House) degree,
Dodzhson accepted junior spiritual dignity of Diakon (in clerical
Oxford acceptance of dignity was the necessary condition of
electing in the members of college) and «donom» became by
the member of college of Church Dominical, which
The publisher of magazines and writer Edmund Yets advised
Dodzhsonu to think of a pseudonym, and in «Dnevnikakh»
Dodzhsona a record appears from February, 11 1865: «Wrote
Mr. to Yates, offering to him at choice pseudonyms: 1) Edgar
Katvellis [the name of Edgar Cuthwellis turns out at
transposition of letters from Charles Lutwidge]; 2) Edgard U.
Ch. vestkhill [method of receipt of pseudonym what in the
previous case]; 3) Louis Kerroll [Louis from Lyutvidzh —
Lyudvik is Louis, Kerroll from Charlza]; 4) Lewis Kerrol [on that
principle
Mathematical works of Dodzhsona did not leave any noticeable
track in history of mathematics.. Told and essentially complete
isolation of Dodzhsona from the scientific world: not counting
of short duration visits to London, Bat and to the sisters,
Dodzhson all time conducted in Oxford, and only in 1867 the
usual way of his life was broken a journey to distant Russia
(from this journey of Dodzhson expounded the impressions in
the famous «Russian diary»).
Unique originality of his style is conditioned
triuneness of his literary gift of thought of
mathematician and acute logic. Despite widespread
opinion of that, as though Kerroll along with
Edvardom Lirom can be considered the founder of
«poetry of nonsenses» («nonsense poetry»), Lewis
Kerroll created other genre of «paradoxical
literature in actual fact»: his heroes do not violate
logic, and vice versa, follow it, taking logic to
absurdity.
The most considerable literary
works of Kerrolla of Lewis are
legally consider two fairy-tales
about Alice is «Alice in
Wonderland» (1865) and
«Through Mirror and that Alice»
(1871) saw there, usually for
short urgent «Alice in
Zazerkal'e».
Lines of unique style distinctly
oschutimy and in other works of
Kerrolla: «Sil'vi and Bruno»,
«Hunt on Snarka», «Midnight
tasks», «History with knots»,
«That a tortoise said Akhillu»,
«Allen Braun and Karr», «Euclid
and his modern competitors»,
letters to the children.
In Russia Kerroll uses a wide fame
from the end of the last century.
Fairy-tales about Alice were
repeatedly translated and retold into
Russian language, in particular, by
Vladimir by Vladimir Nabokovym. But
one of the best translations carried
out Boris Vladimir Zakhoder.
Histories, thought of Kerrolom, not
only children but also adults love