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Go Ask Alice

Lewis Carroll, author of the beloved children's classic 'Alice in Wonderland' was the nom de plume of Charles Dodgson. Dodgson was a mathematician at Oxford and authored a number of mathematical treatises.

Debunked: Queen Victoria so loved Alice in Wonderland she requested copies of all Lewis Carroll's books. Was ticked with copy of Symbolic Logic.

Dodgson himself denied the rumor in the second edition of his book 'Symbolic Logic':

I take this opportunity of giving what publicity I can to my contradiction of a silly story, which has been going the round of the papers, about my having presented certain books to Her Majesty the Queen. It is so constantly repeated, and is such absolute fiction, that I think it worthwhile to state, once for all, that it is utterly false in every particular; nothing even resembling it has ever occurred.

References:

• The AFU and Urban Legend Archives: Symbolic Logic for Queen Victoria
• Encylopedia Britannica: Lewis Carroll