A Budget of Paradoxes: Reprinted with the Author's Additions, from the Athenaeum Vols. I & II

The Open Court Publishing Co., 1915 The Open Court Publishing Co., 1915 Two volumes, viii, 401 pp - vol. I & 387 pp - vol. II. Ex-libe Columbia University School of Mathmatics. Texts are clean, tight and unmarked. Vol.I has front hinge cracked but holding. Red cloth boards are rubbed at extremities. Augustus De Morgan 1806-1871) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. A Philosophical Society had been inaugurated at Cambridge; and to its Transactions De Morgan contributed four memoirs on the foundations of algebra, and an equal number on formal logic. The best presentation of his view of algebra is found in a volume, entitled Trigonometry and Double Algebra, published in 1849; and his earlier view of formal logic is found in a volume published in 1847. His most distinctive work is styled A Budget of Paradoxes; it originally appeared as letters in the columns of the Athenæum journal; it was revised and extended by De Morgan in the last years of his life, and was published posthumously by his widow. Second Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.. Second Edition.. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.