British mathematician and logician (1806–1871)
Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician who lived in the 1800s and made important contributions to the study of logic and mathematical reasoning. His work helped establish modern logic as a formal system, laying groundwork for how we think about mathematical proofs and rational argument today.
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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.
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