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Augustus De Morgan, polymath : new perspectives on his life and legacy / edited by Karen Attar, Adrian Rice and Christopher Stray
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, [2024]Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 344 pages)ISBN:- 9781805113287
- 9781805113294
- 9781805113263
- QA29.D43
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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 lifePPN: PPN: 1916225713Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Part I. Scientific work -- part II. Beyond science -- part III. The bibliographic record.
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