Lewis Carroll

British author and scholar (1832–1898)

1st World's Fair in 1851 in London, England

botanical garden in Oxford, UK

thumb|right|Reconstructed nyctograph, with scale demonstrated by a 5 euro cent. Nyctography (in Nyctography: ) is a form of substitution cipher writing created by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in 1891. It is written with a nyctograph (a device invented by Carroll) and uses a system of dots and strokes all based on a dot placed in the upper left corner. Using the Nyctograph, one could quickly jot down ideas or notes without the aid of light. Carroll invented the Nyctograph and Nyctography as he was often awakened during the night with thoughts that needed to be written down at once,

method of computing determinants

American literary award