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Augustus de Morgan

Augustus de Morgan Photograph by Ernest Edwards, mid-1860s from the Society's Tucker Collection in the Science Museum Library in London AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN B. H. NEUMANN The first President of the London Mathematical Society was Augustus De Morgan (note the capital "D", which he, himself, insisted on). Who was he, what kind of person, what kind of mathematician? In trying to answer these questions, I shall inevitably put forward subjective views. There is no dearth of material on Augustus De Morgan; on the contrary, there is much more than I could hope, in finite time, to assimilate. I am not an historian, and my interest in Augustus De Morgan is amateurish. Thus this sketch should not be taken for a photographic portrait. The most important source of our knowledge of Augustus De Morgan is the Memoir of Augustus De Morgan by his wife Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan with selections from his letters (Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1882); I have used it extensively. There are obituary notices in the Athenaeum (1871) and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1872); entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Dictionary of National Biography, the World Who's Who in Science; and the introductions to various http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society Wiley

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0024-6093
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Photograph by Ernest Edwards, mid-1860s from the Society's Tucker Collection in the Science Museum Library in London AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN B. H. NEUMANN The first President of the London Mathematical Society was Augustus De Morgan (note the capital "D", which he, himself, insisted on). Who was he, what kind of person, what kind of mathematician? In trying to answer these questions, I shall inevitably put forward subjective views. There is no dearth of material on Augustus De Morgan; on the contrary, there is much more than I could hope, in finite time, to assimilate. I am not an historian, and my interest in Augustus De Morgan is amateurish. Thus this sketch should not be taken for a photographic portrait. The most important source of our knowledge of Augustus De Morgan is the Memoir of Augustus De Morgan by his wife Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan with selections from his letters (Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1882); I have used it extensively. There are obituary notices in the Athenaeum (1871) and the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (1872); entries in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Dictionary of National Biography, the World Who's Who in Science; and the introductions to various

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Published: Nov 1, 1984

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