Augustus De Morgan, Polymath
When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered thr...
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| description | When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has been underappreciated by historians. Now, renewed interest in De Morgan’s life and work has coincided with the digitization of his extensive library, revealing the extent to which he pioneered and influenced the development of not merely mathematics but also logic, astronomy, the history of mathematics, education, and bibliography. This edited collection celebrates De Morgan as a polymath. Drawing together multiple elements of his activity from a range of publications and archives, its contributors re-assess his academic work, his place in his intellectual environment, and his legacy. The result offers new insight into De Morgan himself as well as the wider circles in which he moved, including his family life. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1440432024-09-13T04:11:14Z Augustus De Morgan, Polymath Attar, Karen Rice, Adrian Stray, Christopher Augustus De Morgan;Biography;Victorian England;History of Mathematics;Mathematics Education;Logic thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBX History of mathematics thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBT Biography: science, technology and medicine thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNB History of education When Augustus De Morgan died in 1871, he was described as ‘one of the profoundest mathematicians in the United Kingdom’ and even as ‘the greatest of our mathematicians’. But he was far more than just a mathematician. Because much of his voluminous written output on various subjects was scattered throughout journals and encyclopaedias, the breadth of his interests and contributions has been underappreciated by historians. Now, renewed interest in De Morgan’s life and work has coincided with the digitization of his extensive library, revealing the extent to which he pioneered and influenced the development of not merely mathematics but also logic, astronomy, the history of mathematics, education, and bibliography. This edited collection celebrates De Morgan as a polymath. Drawing together multiple elements of his activity from a range of publications and archives, its contributors re-assess his academic work, his place in his intellectual environment, and his legacy. The result offers new insight into De Morgan himself as well as the wider circles in which he moved, including his family life. 2024-09-13T04:11:12Z 2024-09-13T04:11:12Z 2024-09-12T08:13:00Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93201 9781805113263 9781805113270 9781805113300 9781805113294 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/144043 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/93201/1/obp.0408.pdf Open Book Publishers 10.11647/OBP.0408 10.11647/OBP.0408 b014b543-78bd-4c3b-bc71-b68e2ac855b9 9781805113263 9781805113270 9781805113300 9781805113294 388 Cambridge open access |
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