Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan
De Morgan in 1882
Born(1806-06-27)27 June 1806
Madurai, Carnatic, Madras Presidency (present-day India)
Died18 March 1871(1871-03-18) (aged 64)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forDe Morgan's laws
De Morgan algebra
De Morgan hierarchy
Relation algebra
Universal algebra
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician and Logician
InstitutionsUniversity College London
University College School
Academic advisorsJohn Philips Higman
George Peacock
William Whewell
Notable studentsEdward Routh
James Joseph Sylvester
Frederick Guthrie
William Stanley Jevons
Jacob Waley
Ada Lovelace
Walter Bagehot
Richard Holt Hutton
Francis Guthrie
Stephen Joseph Perry
Numa Edward Hartog
Isaac Todhunter
Henry Roscoe
Arthur Cohen
Thomas Hodgkin
Robert Bellamy Clifton
Charles James Hargreave
George Jessel
Sedley Taylor
Notes
He was the father of William De Morgan.

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.[1] 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.

  1. ^ De Morgan, (1838) Induction (mathematics), The Penny Cyclopedia.