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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Augustus De Morgan is the 105th most popular mathematician (down from 78th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from India (down from 50th in 2019) 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 105 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Erdős, John Wallis, Claude Shannon, Felix Klein, Guillaume de l'Hôpital, and Adrien-Marie Legendre. After him are Anthemius of Tralles, Émile Picard, Willebrord Snellius, Paul Cohen, Alexis Clairaut, and Grigori Perelman.

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Among people born in 1806, Augustus De Morgan ranks 5. Before him are John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Max Stirner, and Benito Juárez. After him are Emilia Plater, Catherine Labouré, Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies, Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Gleyre, and Omar Pasha. Among people deceased in 1871, Augustus De Morgan ranks 5. Before him are Charles Babbage, John Herschel, Shamil, 3rd Imam of Dagestan, and Daniel Auber. After him are Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Michael Thonet, Louise of the Netherlands, Omar Pasha, Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Anna Atkins, and Sigismond Thalberg.

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In India

Among people born in India, Augustus De Morgan ranks 92 out of 1,861. Before him are Julie Christie (1940), B. D. Jatti (1912), Mohammed Nadir Shah (1883), Jahangir (1569), William Makepeace Thackeray (1811), and Priyanka Chopra (1982). After him are Paramahansa Yogananda (1893), Maudgalyayana (-568), Aśvaghoṣa (80), Sri Aurobindo (1872), Meera (1498), and N. R. Narayana Murthy (1946).

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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 Madhava of Sangamagrama (1350), S. R. Ranganathan (1892), Bhāskara I (600), D. R. Kaprekar (1905), Jai Singh II (1688), Sulochana Gadgil (1944), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940).

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