Augustus De Morgan - Biography

Augustus De Morgan (June 27, 1806 - March 18, 1871) was an Indian-born British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and was the first to introduce the term, and make rigorous the idea of mathematical induction.1 De Morgan crater on the Moon is named after him. Augustus De Morgan - Biography. Augustus De Morgan - Childhood. Augustus De Morgan was born June 27, 18062 in ...

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Augustus De Morgan - Childhood. Augustus De Morgan was born June 27, 18062 in Madura, Madras Presidency, India (now Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India); His father was Col. De Morgan, who held various appointments in the service of the East India Company. His mother descended from James Dodson, who computed a table of anti-logarithms, that is, the numbers corresponding to exact logarithms. Col. De Morgan moved his family to England when Augustus was seven months old. As his fa ...

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De Morgan was a brilliant and witty writer, whether as a controversialist or as a correspondent. In his time there flourished two Sir William Hamiltons who have often been confounded. The one was Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (that is, his title was inherited), a Scotsman, professor of logic and metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh; the other was a knight (that is, won the title), an Irishman, professor at astronomy in the University of Dublin. The baronet contributed to logic, especially the doctrine of the quantification of the p ...

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De Morgan was a brilliant and witty writer, whether as a controversialist or as a correspondent. In his time there flourished two Sir William Rowan Hamiltons who have often been confounded. The one Sir William was a baronet (that is, inherited the title), a Scotsman, professor of logic and metaphysics in the University of Edinburgh; the other was a knight (that is, won the title), an Irishman, professor of astronomy in the University of Dublin. The baronet contributed to logic the doctrine of the quantification of the predicate; the knight, ...

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Augustus De Morgan, Augustus De Morgan - Biography, Augustus De Morgan - Childhood, Augustus De Morgan - University education, Augustus De Morgan - London University, Augustus De Morgan - Retirement and death, Augustus De Morgan - Mathematical work, Augustus De Morgan - Relations, Augustus De Morgan - Notes

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