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A Budget of Paradoxes (Paperback)
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A Budget of Paradoxes (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics
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An important figure in the development of modern mathematical logic
and abstract algebra, Augustus De Morgan (1806-71) was also a witty
writer who made a hobby of collecting evidence of paradoxical and
illogical thinking from historical sources as well as contemporary
pamphlets and periodicals. Based on articles that had appeared in
The Athenaeum during his lifetime, this work was edited by his
widow and published in book form in 1872. It parades all varieties
of crackpot, from circle-squarers to inventors of perpetual motion
machines, all for the reader's entertainment and education. Filled
with anecdotes, personal opinions and 'squibs' of every kind, the
book remains enjoyable reading for those who are amused rather than
appalled by the human condition. Also reissued in the Cambridge
Library Collection are the Memoir of Augustus De Morgan (1882),
prepared by his wife, and his ambitious Formal Logic (1847).
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