Augustus De Morgan vs. Bertrand Russell
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Augustus De Morgan
1806 – 1871
Augustus De Morgan 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.
"I cannot see why it is necessary that every deduction from algebra should be bound to certain conventions incident to an earlier stage of mathematical learning,…"
Bertrand Russell
1872 – 1970
British philosopher, logician, and social critic.
"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead."
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