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Augustus De Morgan
Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term "mathematical induction", the underlying principles of which he formalized. De Morgan's contributions to logic are heavily used in many branches of mathematics, including set theory and probability theory, as well as ot…
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science · British mathematician and logician (1806–1871) · mathematician · philosopher · university teacher · lawyer · logician · also Augustus De Morgan, Morgan
Born 27 June 1806 · Died 18 March 1871 · Q208448
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We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of exact science are mathematics and logic: the mathematical sect puts out the logical eye, the logical sect puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it can see better with one eye than with two.
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,637 times.
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1872· 1 entry
A Budget of Paradoxes is a compilation of De Morgan's column of the same name for the Athenæum, consisting mostly book reviews and focusing on so-called paradoxers, also referred to as pseudomaths (a De Morgan neologism)
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1871· 5 entries
Died 1871-03-18.
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“If much difficulty should be experienced in the elementary chapters, I know of no work which I can so confidently recommend to be used with the present one, as that of M. Duhamel.”
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“I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.”
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“We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of exact science are mathematics and logic: the mathematical sect puts out the logical eye, the logical sect puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it can see better with one eye than with two.”
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“The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination.”
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1866· 1 entry
The Chair of Mental Philosophy and Logic at University College fell vacant and James Martineau was recommended formally by the Senate to the Council
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1865· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1865–1866).
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1860· 1 entry
Was later expressed by Schrŏder in his textbook on binary relations, and is now commonly called Schröder rules
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1859· 1 entry
Targeting a European audience; De Morgan's preface surveyed classical Indian mathematical thought and urged a contemporary return of Indian mathematics:
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1850· 1 entry
De Morgan received a book from John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune, A Treatise on Problems of Maxima and Minima, written and self-published by the self-taught Indian mathematician Ramchundra
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1849· 1 entry
De Morgan taught mathematics for one year at the newly founded Ladies College in Bedford Square
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1847· 2 entries
In the same week (by arrangement) as George Boole's Mathematical Analysis of Logic
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On the same day as De Morgan's Formal Logic
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1846· 2 entries
“On the structure of the syllogism”
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Mathematically defines the rules of Aristotelian logic, specifically syllogism, and including what are now known as De Morgan's laws
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1839· 1 entry
De Morgan authored a series of papers "On the foundation of algebra", describing what he called "logical" or "double" algebra, essentially an early form of geometric algebra
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1836· 1 entry
De Morgan's replacement as Professor of Mathematics, George J
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1831· 1 entry
The year in which it received its Royal Charter and became the Royal Astronomical Society
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1828· 1 entry
The University advertised 24 vacancies for professorship, two in mathematics, to which De Morgan applied
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1827· 1 entry
Studied at Lincoln's Inn (1826–1827).
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1826· 3 entries
Lord Brougham, one of the founders of London University, founded the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) with the goal of promoting self-education and improving the moral character of the middle- and wor
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As a secular alternative to Oxford and Cambridge; Catholics, Jews, and dissenters could enter as students and hold positions
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Studied at Trinity College (1823–1826).
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1823· 1 entry
At the age of sixteen, De Morgan enrolled in Trinity College, Cambridge, where his teachers and tutors included George Peacock, William Whewell, George Biddell Airy, H
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1806· 1 entry
Born 1806-06-27.
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