Augustus De Morgan
1806-1871
English mathematician whose work in logic helped spur the development of mathematical logic as a separate discipline. He was instrumental in making mathematics a professio...
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De Morgan, Augustus(1806–1871)
A British mathematician and logician, Augustus De Morgan was born at Madura, India, where his father was an army officer. After early education in the west of Eng...
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De Morgan
The above criticisms of Hamilton's system are primarily due to Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871), whom Hamilton, in 1846, had misguidedly accused of plagiarizing his quantificatio...
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Augustus De Morgan entered the English mathematical scene during a period of inactivity and by the time of his death it had regained the stature it had since the time of Isaac Newton. Although De Morg...
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