Por Robin Wilson (Open University; Gresham College, London).
If Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) hadn’t written Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, he would probably be remembered as a pioneer photographer – and also as a mathematician. But what mathematics was he interested in? – and how good was he? In this talk I summarise his mathematical life and works in the context of Victorian Oxford.
Bio: Robin Wilson is an Emeritus Professor of Pure Mathematics at the Open University, Emeritus Professor of Geometry at Gresham College, London, and a former Fellow of Keble College, Oxford University.
A former President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, he has written and edited over 50 books on the history of and its history (including Lewis Carroll in Numberland & Euler’s Pioneering Equation) and specifically on graph theory (including Introduction to Graph Theory & Four Colours Suffice). Involved with the popularization and communication of mathematics and its history,
He has received awards from the Mathematical Association of America for his ‘outstanding expository writing’, and the Stanton Medal from the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications for his outreach activities in combinatorics. He has been awarded two honorary doctorates and has Erdős Number 1. Robin Wilson is an hornoray member of Associação Ludus since 2017.
