Augustus De Morgan

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human logician mathematician university teacher

Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.

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De Morgan ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → logician → mathematician → university teacher →
academicDegree	Bachelor of Arts →
birthDate	1806-06-27 →
birthPlace	British India → Madras Presidency → Madurai →
child	William De Morgan →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom →
deathDate	1871-03-18 →
deathPlace	London → United Kingdom NERFINISHED →
describedBySource	Encyclopædia Britannica →
educatedAt	Trinity College, Cambridge NERFINISHED →
employer	University College London →
era	19th century →
ethnicGroup	English →
familyName	De Morgan →
fieldOfWork	algebra → logic → mathematics → probability theory →
givenName	Augustus →
hasConceptNamedAfter	De Morgan's laws →
influenced	Charles Sanders Peirce NERFINISHED → George Boole → modern mathematical logic →
influencedBy	George Boole →
knownFor	De Morgan's laws → algebraic logic → history of mathematics → symbolic logic → work on the foundations of arithmetic →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
memberOf	London Mathematical Society →
name	Augustus De Morgan →
notableWork	A Budget of Paradoxes → Elements of Arithmetic → Formal Logic → Trigonometry and Double Algebra →
positionHeld	Professor of Mathematics at University College London → first president of the London Mathematical Society →
religiousBelief	Unitarianism →
spouse	Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan →
workLocation	London →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Charles Sanders Peirce → Mary Everest Boole →	influencedBy
Augustus De Morgan ("De Morgan") →	familyName
London Mathematical Society →	foundedBy
Augustus De Morgan →	name
De Morgan Medal →	namedAfter