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Augustus De Morgan
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Augustus De Morgan was a British author and mathematician who lived from 1806 to 1871. His published works include *A treatise on the calculus of functions*, *The book of almanacs*, *On a theorem relative to neutral series*, *Elementary illustrations of the differential and integral calculus*, and *Calculus of functions*. Open Library records 111 works attributed to him, while Crossref lists five.
De Morgan is the source of several recorded quotes, including “The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination” and “I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.” His life and work have been referenced in 221 other encyclopedia articles.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1806
- Died
- 1871
- Works
- 111
Top works
- A treatise on the calculus of functions
- The book of almanacs
- On a theorem relative to neutral series
- Elementary illustrations of the differential and integral calculus
- Calculus of functions
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,382x
- PLINK: A Tool Set for Whole-Genome Association and Population-Based Linkage Analyses
· 2007 · cited 31,364x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,119x
- QUANTUM ESPRESSO: a modular and open-source software project for quantum simulations of materials
· 2009 · cited 22,935x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,254x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “All existing things upon this earth, which have knowledge of their own existence, possess, some in one degree and some in another, the power of thought, accompanied by perception, which is the awakening of thought by the effects of external objects upon the senses.”
- “There never has been, and till we see it we never shall believe that there can be, a system of geometry worthy of the name, which has any material departures (we do not speak of corrections or extensions or developments) from the plan laid down by Euclid.”
- “The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning, but imagination.”
- “We know that mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. The two eyes of exact science are mathematics and logic: the mathematical sect puts out the logical eye, the logical sect puts out the mathematical eye; each believing that it can see better with one eye than with two.”
- “I did not hear what you said, but I absolutely disagree with you.”
- “They [the English] forget that at this moment there still exists [in India] a body of literature and science which might well be the nucleus of a new civilisation, though every trace of Christian and Mohammedan civilization were blotted out of existence.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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Encyclopedic overview
Augustus De Morgan (27 June 1806 – 18 March 1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He is best known for De Morgan's laws relating logical conjunction, disjunction, and negation, and for coining the term "mathematical induction", the underlying principles of which he formalized. De Morgan's contributions to logic are heavily used in many branches of mathematics, including set theory and probability theory, as well as other related fields such as computer science.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Augustus De Morgan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.