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Augustus De Morgan
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Augustus
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Madurai
- Place of death
- London
- Child
- Mary De Morgan
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Lincoln's Inn
- Employer
- University College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- De Morgan's laws
- Doctoral advisor
- William Whewell
- Doctoral student
- Renoir
- Field of work
- propositional calculus
- Image
- Augustus De Morgan.jpg
- Work location
- Cambridge
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- date of birth
- 1806-06-27
- date of death
- 1871-03-18
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Augustus De Morgan
- Commons gallery
- Augustus De Morgan
- student
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- writing language
- English language
- influenced by
- George Boole
- contributor to the creative work or subject
- Household Words
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- place of burial
- Kensal Green Cemetery
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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
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