Something I would have never guessed about Lewis Carroll was that he taught school, and not only that, but he taught math.

I've always associated him as being the man who wrote about Alice. Who wrote books, not solved equations. I'd heard/read rumors of drug influences and stories of pedophilia (which I haven't read about thus far in this book) but I NEVER ever knew that he taught math, or that he was good at math. I need to let it set in I guess.

Well, Lewis Carroll was a genius, I know this much so far. He loved math and all of his colleagues and former teachers found him very good at it. He had a difficult time teaching undergraduate at college though. He found teaching fun when he moved on to teach a younger set of all girl pupils who wanted to learn. He thought of easy ways for them to learn.

After a while though he became tired of math and became more interested in logic. Making him a Logician. (new favorite word? yes.) He made up riddles for magazines, friends, family, students and they all tried to solve them. I don't really understand them all. Many of the ones in The Mystery of Lewis Carroll are written as verse but, there's suppose to be some pattern that helps you figure out what exactly the riddles are. The pattern has something to do with the second word's third letter in each odd line or something along those lines and I'm really not sure. And I don't think others are, because there were about four in the book that people hadn't figured out. I wonder if there is some sort of hidden answers page or key somewhere. If there is, hopefully it wasn't lost for ever.

It's crazy how, well rounded I guess Carroll was.