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A Budget of Paradoxes

A Budget of Paradoxes

De Morgan, Sophia
de Morgan, Augustus

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics

General MathematicsGeneral Science

ISBN10: 110808320X
ISBN13: 9781108083201
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 30 2015
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
An important figure in the development of modern mathematical logic and abstract algebra, Augustus De Morgan (1806-71) was also a witty writer who made a hobby of collecting evidence of paradoxical and illogical thinking from historical sources as well as contemporary pamphlets and periodicals. Based on articles that had appeared in The Athenaeum during his lifetime, this work was edited by his widow and published in book form in 1872. It parades all varieties of crackpot, from circle-squarers to inventors of perpetual motion machines, all for the reader's entertainment and education. Filled with anecdotes, personal opinions and 'squibs' of every kind, the book remains enjoyable reading for those who are amused rather than appalled by the human condition. Also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection are the Memoir of Augustus De Morgan (1882), prepared by his wife, and his ambitious Formal Logic (1847).

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