Augustus De Morgan
British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. Biography Childhood Augustus De Morgan was born in Madurai, in the Carnatic region of India in 1806. His father was Lieut.-Colonel John De Morgan , who held various appointments in the service of the East India Company, and his mother, Elizabeth , was the daughter of John Dodson and granddaughter of James Dodson, who computed a table of anti-logarithms . Augustus De Morgan became blind in one eye a month or two after he was born. The family moved to England when Augustus was seven months old. As his father and grandfather had both been born in India, De Morgan used to say that he was neither English, nor Scottish, nor Irish, but a Briton "unattached", using the technical term applied to an undergraduate of Oxford or Cambridge who is not a member of any one of the Colleges.
Augustus De Morgan's Published Works
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- On the Syllogism, No. IV., and on the Logic of Relations (79)
- On the study and difficulties of mathematics (30)
- On the Symbols of Logic, the Theory of the Syllogism, and in particular of the Copula, and the application of the Theory of Probabilities to some questions of Evidence (24)
- Remark on the preceding Paper (1866) (23)
- On the Syllogism, No. III., and on Logic in general (16)
- Rara arithmetica : a catalogue of the arithmetics written before the year MDCI, with a description of those in the library of George Arthur Plimpton of New York (15)
- An Essay on Probabilities (15)
- An essay on probabilities : and on their application to life contingencies and insurance offices / by Augustus De Morgan. (14)
- Cheap Repository Tracts (1864) (10)
- On a Property of Mr. Gompertz’s Law of Mortality (1859) (5)
- Some Account of James Dodson, F.R.S. (1868) (4)
- On Gompertz's Law of Mortality (4)
- On some points in the Theory of Differential Equations (3)
- Account of a Correspondence between Mr. George Barrett and Mr. Francis Baily (3)
- On an unfair supression of due acknowledgement to the writings of Mr. Benjamin Gompertz (1860) (3)
- On the Summation of Divergent Series (1865) (3)
- On the Syllogism, No. V., and on various points of the Onymatic System (3)
- On the Determination of the Rate of Interest of an Annuity (3)
- On a Point Connected with the Dispute between Keil and Leibnitz about the Invention of Fluxions (3)
- Dr. Johnson and Dr. Maty (1857) (3)
- L. On the rule for finding the value of an annuity on three lives (1839) (2)
- Lord Halifax and mrs. Catherine Barton (1853) (2)
- A question in logic (1860) (1)
- On the Rule for finding the Value of an Annuity on Three Lives (1861) (1)
- II. On the Reduction of a continued fraction to a series (1)
- LVIII. On the invention of the circular parts (1843) (1)
- Mr. Edmonds: College Life (1861) (1)
- Drawing society of Dublin (1860) (1)
- Note on the calendar (1851) (1)
- Easter day, 1845 (1844) (0)
- Newton's nephew, the rev. B. Smith; the new atalantis; lord halifax and mrs. C. Barton. (1857) (0)
- Butler’s “hudibras.” (1857) (0)
- Value of a Policy—Formulæ —Milne (1867) (0)
- Newton's nephew, the rev. B. Smith (1857) (0)
- An assailant of the mathematical sciences (1858) (0)
- On the Calculation of Life Contingencies. (Part II) (1866) (0)
- Spurious edition of Baily's Annuities (1851) (0)
- The Word “Any.” (1862) (0)
- L. On the relation between the number of faces, edges, and corners in a solid polyhedron (1838) (0)
- Symbolization of colours in heraldry (1864) (0)
- Anonymous contributions to "N. & Q." (1864) (0)
- Value of money (1860) (0)
- Aristotle's politics (1864) (0)
- Negro new testaments (1864) (0)
- A Budget of Paradoxes (Continued from page 150) (0)
- On the final law of the sums of drawings (1868) (0)
- Attainment of Majority (1853) (0)
- Book of Almanacs (0)
- On the Rejection of the Fractions of a Pound in extensive Valuations (1862) (0)
- On the Calculation of Single Life Contingencies (Part I) (0)
- A Budget of Paradoxes (Continued from page 284, vol. xi) (1864) (0)
- Game of “one-and-thirty” (1858) (0)
- Rev. Thomas Bayes, etc. (1860) (0)
- Length of miles (1855) (0)
- On a Problem in Annuities, and on Arbogast's Method of Development (1865) (0)
- Southey and Voltaire (1854) (0)
- Napier's bones (1858) (0)
- On a Method of Checking Annuity Tables, at different rates of interest, by help of one another (0)
- On the Conic Octagram (1866) (0)
- A Query about Interest Accounts (1862) (0)
- John churchill and the duchess of cleveland (1856) (0)
- Quadrature of the circle (1857) (0)
- A Budget of Paradoxes (Continued from vol. xiii, page 245) * (0)
- Arithmetical notes, no. III (1855) (0)
- Query on the controversy about fluxions (1852) (0)
- Newton's apple (1858) (0)
- Authorship of the Treatise on Probability Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (0)
- Pound and mil scheme (1856) (0)
- Dedications to the deity (1860) (0)
- Books on logic (1855) (0)
- Two suggestions on the quadrature of the circle (1864) (0)
- Reward for the quadrature of the circle (1855) (0)
- The Midshipman's three dinners (1858) (0)
- A bull of burke's (1864) (0)
- XXXIV. On Fernel's measure of a degree, in reply to Mr. Galloway's remarks (1842) (0)
- Character of the germans (1860) (0)
- A possible test of authorship (1855) (0)
- Fly-leaves of books: Reuben Burrow (1855) (0)
- Ride v. drive (1860) (0)
- Albini the mathematician (1858) (0)
- Jacob's Staff (3rd s. IV. 133): Atkinson's navigation (1864) (0)
- Newton's Table of Leases (0)
- On the Forms under which Barrett's Method is presented, and on Changes of Words and Symbols (0)
- VII. On the almost total disappearance of the earliest Trigonometrical Canon (1845) (0)
- Jacob's Staff: Astrolabe: Margarita Philosophica (1864) (0)
- Is a thing itself, or Something else? (1864) (0)
- On the opinion of Copernicus with respect to the light of the planets (0)
- Some Incidental Writings by De Morgan (Continued) (0)
- Berners street hoax (1858) (0)
- Means op beading the logic of abistotxe. (1856) (0)
- Anticipated inventions, etc. (1855) (0)
- The differential and integral calculus : containing differentiation, integration, development, series, differential equations, differences, summation, equations of differences, calculus of variations, definite integrals, with applications to algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, and mechanics : a (0)
- Problem in Rhyme (1859) (0)
- On a Point Connected with the Dispute about the Invention of Fluxions. [Abstract] (0)
- Lexell's comet (0)
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (1864) (0)
- Michael Scott's writings on astronomy (1862) (0)
- Bayle and his continuers (1856) (0)
- The differential and integral calculus : containing differentiation, integration, development, series ... (0)
- A Budget of Paradoxes (Continued from p. 301, vol. xii) (1866) (0)
- Rue at the old Bailey (1857) (0)
- James Wilson, M.D. (1852) (0)
- L.On the relative signs of coordinates (1836) (0)
- Swift: Gulliver's travels (1858) (0)
- Fourier's Statistical Tables (0)
- Musical acoustics: Greek geometers (1857) (0)
- The new Atlantis (1856) (0)
- Rising of the lights (1859) (0)
- Unexpectedness of phrase (1864) (0)
- Ebrardus and Johannes de garlandia (1855) (0)
- On a Statement Revived in Mr. Hodge's Paper on Interest with Reference to the Authorship of Graunt's Observations (1859) (0)
- Publication of diaries (1864) (0)
- Mr. Woolhouse's Recent Paper (0)
- Dr. Gowin Knight (1860) (0)
- Selden's “table-talk.” (1855) (0)
- As sure as eggs is eggs. (1864) (0)
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