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Augustus de Morgan, Polymath : New Perspectives on His Life and Legacy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematicians--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- De Morgan, Augustus, 1806-1871.
- De Morgan, Augustus.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (388 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2024.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
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- Introduction
- De Morgan: Polymath
- Karen Attar, Adrian Rice and Christopher Stray
- Part I
- Scientific WORK
- 1. De Morgan and Mathematics
- Adrian Rice
- 2. De Morgan and Logic
- Anna-Sophie Heinemann
- 3. Augustus De Morgan, Astronomy and Almanacs
- Daniel Belteki
- 4. De Morgan, Periodicals and Encyclopaedias
- Olivier Bruneau
- 5. Augustus De Morgan: Meta-Scientific Rebel
- Lukas M. Verburgt
- Part II
- BEYOND SCIENCE
- 6. De Morgan and Mathematics Education
- Christopher Stray
- 7. De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes
- 8. Augustus De Morgan and the Bloomsbury Milieu
- Rosemary Ashton
- 9. De Morgan's Family: Sophia and the Children
- Joan L. Richards
- Part III
- The Bibliographic Record
- 10. Augustus De Morgan's Library Revisited: Its Context and Its Afterlife
- Karen Attar
- 11. Augustus De Morgan: The Archival Record
- Karen Attar, Alexander Lock, Katy Makin, Jane Maxwell, Virginia Mills and Diana Smith
- 12. Bibliography of the Works of Augustus De Morgan
- William Hale
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-80511-327-5
- 1-80511-328-3
- OCLC:
- 1454830292
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