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Article Summary. Augustus De Morgan was an important British mathematician and logician. Much of his logical work was directed to expanding the traditional syllogistic theory, and to meeting the objections of Sir William Hamilton and his allies to the techniques he used. More important for the future of logic, though, was De Morgan’s work in ...
Augustus De Morgan. It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician. Quoted in H Eves In Mathematical Circles (Boston 1969). Every science that has thriven has thriven upon its own symbols: logic, the only science which is admitted to have made no improvements in century after century, is the only one which has grown no symbols.
Augustus de Morgan wird am 27. Juni 1806 in Madura im indischen Bundesstaat Madras geboren. Der Vater ist englischer Kolonialoffizier, die Mutter Enkelin eines zu seiner Zeit bekannten Mathematikers, James Dodson (t 1757), Master der Royal Mathematical School am Christ's Hospital und Freund von Abraham de Moivre (1667-1754). Als de
27. Juni 2017 · Augustus De Morgan, a British logician and mathematician, was born June 27, 1806. De Morgan was a brilliant mathematician who, with George Boole, was one of the founders of symbolic logic in England, but because he was a Unitarian and refused to subscribe to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Anglican Church, he was denied a fellowship at Oxford or Cambridge, and so he had to look elsewhere for ...
Augustus De Morgan (n. 27 iunie 1806, d. 18 martie 1871) a fost matematician britanic, cunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale în logica matematică, motiv pentru care este considerat întemeietorul logicii formale.
De Morgan studierte von 1823 bis 1826 am Trinity College in Cambridge. 1827 bekam er eine Anstellung im neu gegründeten University College in London, wo er schon 1828 Professor wurde. Diese Stelle behielt er bis 1866. In diesem Jahr wurde er erster Präsident der London Mathematical Society, deren Mitbegründer er war.
