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We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Augustus De Morgan
Born: June 27, 1806
Died: March 18, 1871 (aged 64)
Bio: Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.
Known for:
- A Budget of Paradoxes
- An Essay on Probabilities (1838)
- Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849)
- On the study and difficulties of mathematics (1830)
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