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De Morgan

[ di mawr-guhn ]

noun

  1. Augustus, 1806–71, English mathematician and logician.
  2. William Frend [frend], 1839–1917, English novelist and ceramist.


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Stymied by the problem, famed mathematician Augustus De Morgan grew obsessed and concluded that a new axiom—which in math is a statement that’s assumed to be true without proof, from which more complicated statements can be derived—must be added to the foundations of math to resolve Guthrie’s conjecture.

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Falcons: Ryan sustained the cut on his left hand when Panthers DE Morgan Fox stepped on it in the second quarter.

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Defaced by early Coptic Christians, damaged by earthquakes and even mined for building materials, Kom Ombo was in disrepair until 1893, when it was cleared by the French archaeologist Jean-Jacques de Morgan.

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Sublime Symmetry Victorian ceramicist William De Morgan studied Islamic art, and his glowing tiles and pots emulate its divine geometries.

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The researchers say that by the end of her correspondence with De Morgan she had reached a university-level understanding of mathematics, and that her teacher was already introducing her to open-ended abstract questions.

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