biography
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| (1815–64)
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| biography:
| Mathematician and logician, born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, EC England, UK. He was largely self-taught, and though without a degree was appointed professor of mathematics at Cork in 1849. He did important work on finite differences and differential equations, but is primarily known for his Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and Laws of Thought (1854), pioneering works in modern symbolic logic. |
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