Augustus De Morgan became the first professor of mathematics at University College London and made important contributions to English mathematics. He was born in Madura, in the Madras Presidency of India (now Madurai), on 27 June 1806, lost the sight of his right eye shortly after birth, and returned to England when he was seven months old. He died in London on 18 March 1871. The laws of logic that bear his name, his work on the foundations of algebra and logic, and the 1838 name mathematical induction are associated with him.
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Augustus De Morgan became the first professor of mathematics at University College London and made important contributions to English mathematics.
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Augustus De Morgan became the first professor of mathematics at University College London and made important contributions to English mathematics.
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He introduced De Morgan's laws and his greatest contribution is as a reformer of mathematical logic.
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They are named after Augustus De Morgan, a 19th-century British mathematician.
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