George Peacock was an English mathematician and Anglican cleric, born on 9 April 1791 at Denton in County Durham, the son of a local priest who also ran a school and published arithmetic textbooks. He was educated at home, at Sedbergh School and at Richmond School, where he prepared for entry to the University of Cambridge. He is remembered for founding what has been called the British algebra of logic, and for his Treatise on Algebra, which tried to give algebra a logical treatment comparable to Euclid's Elements. He died in London on 8 November 1858.
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