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Augustus De Morgan

1806 - 1871

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustus De Morgan has received more than 648,223 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia. Augustus De Morgan is the 78th most popular mathematician (down from 77th in 2019), the 50th most popular biography from India and the 4th most popular Indian Mathematician.

Augustus de Morgan was a mathematician and logician who is most famous for his contributions to logic and algebra. He is credited with the invention of the de Morgan's Laws, which are used in the study of Boolean algebra.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Augustus De Morgan ranks 78 out of 1,004. Before him are Nikolai Lobachevsky, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Zhang Heng, Alfred North Whitehead, Johann Heinrich Lambert, and Benoit Mandelbrot. After him are Andrey Kolmogorov, Jacob Bernoulli, Regiomontanus, Pappus of Alexandria, Stefan Banach, and Felix Klein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, Augustus De Morgan ranks 3. Before him are John Stuart Mill, and Max Stirner. After him are Benito Juárez, Catherine Labouré, Emilia Plater, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, Omar Pasha, William Webb Ellis, and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Among people deceased in 1871, Augustus De Morgan ranks 4. Before him are Charles Babbage, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, and John Herschel. After him are Daniel Auber, Michael Thonet, Sigismond Thalberg, Louise of the Netherlands, Omar Pasha, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, and Wilhelm Weitling.

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In India

Among people born in India, Augustus De Morgan ranks 50 out of 1,861. Before him are Tulsidas (1532), Amartya Sen (1933), Ghalib (1797), Tipu Sultan (1750), Savitribai Phule (1831), and Meera (1498). After him are Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904), C. V. Raman (1888), Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856), Vallabhbhai Patel (1875), Harsha (590), and Vyasa (-390).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In India

Among mathematicians born in India, Augustus De Morgan ranks 4. Before him are Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887), Brahmagupta (598), and Bhāskara II (1114). After him are S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), Bhāskara I (600), Jai Singh II (1688), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), Harish-Chandra (1923), and Kātyāyana (-200).

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