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Augustus De Morgan

Augustus De Morgan

1806 CE1871 CE · Madurai

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.

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Madurai is an ancient temple city on the Vaigai River in southern Tamil Nadu, south India, site of the Mīnākṣi temple. It is the city where the young Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) had, in 1896, the experience of self-inquiry that shaped his teaching, before he left for Aruṇācala.

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