Augustus De Morgan, Polymath: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy

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dc.contributor.authorAttar, Karen
dc.contributor.authorRice, Adrian
dc.contributor.authorStray, Christopher
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-07T04:45:47Z
dc.date.available2024-10-07T04:45:47Z
dc.date.issued2024-09-04
dc.date.updated2024-10-07T04:45:43Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractWhen 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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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0408
dc.identifier.isbn9781805113263
dc.identifier.isbn9781805113270
dc.identifier.isbn9781805113287
dc.identifier.isbn9781805113300
dc.identifier.isbn9781805113294
dc.identifier.other997dc2af-0ca8-4026-8a9f-2f36cce89904
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/803
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherOpen Book Publishers
dc.rightsEmbargo: none
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectBIO015000
dc.subjectBIO019000
dc.subjectHIS015060
dc.subjectMAT015000
dc.subjectDNBT
dc.subjectJNB
dc.subjectPBX
dc.subjectBiography
dc.subjectEuropean Studies: English and Irish Studies
dc.subjectMathematics
dc.subjectScience: History of Science
dc.subjectAugustus De Morgan
dc.subjectHistory of Mathematics
dc.subjectLogic
dc.subjectMathematics Education
dc.subjectVictorian England
dc.titleAugustus De Morgan, Polymath: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33

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