Author:Augustus de Morgan

Augustus De Morgan
(1806–1871)

Augustus De Morgan

Works

• The elements of arithmetic (1830) (external scan)
• Remarks on elementary education in science (1830) (external scan)
• An explanation of the gnomonic projection of the sphere; and of such points of astronomy as are most necessary in the use of astronomical maps: being a description of the construction and use of the larger and smaller maps of the stars; as also of the six maps of the earth (1836) (external scan)
• The Differential and Integral Calculus (1836) (external scan)
• The connexion of number and magnitude (1836) (external scan)
• Elements of algebra, preliminary to the differential calculus (1837) (external scan)
• Elements of trigonometry, and trigonometrical analysis, preliminary to the differential calculus (1837) (external scan)
• An essay on probabilities (1838) (external scan)
• First notions of logic (1839) (external scan)
• Elements of arithmetic (1840) (external scan)
• Natural philosophy (1841) (external scan)
• The globes, celestial and terrestrial (1845) (external scan)
• Arithmetical books (1847) (external scan)
• (individual articles) Penny Cyclopedia
• Trigonometry and Double Algebra (1849)
• (letters to journal) Athenæum
• Formal Logic (1847) (external scan)
• A treatise on problems of maxima and minima, solved by algebra. By Ramchundra. … under the superintendence of Augustus De Morgan (1859) (external scan)
• Syllabus of a proposed system of logic (1860) (external scan)
• The Quadrature of the Circle: Correspondence Between James Smith and Augustus De Morgan (1861) (external scan)
• Seven-figure Logarithms of Numbers from 1 to 108000 and of Sines, Cosines, Tangents, Cotangents by Heinrich Ludwig Friedrich Schrön with Augustus De Morgan (1865) (external scan)
• The book of almanacs (1871) (external scan)
• Budget of Paradoxes (1882) (external scan)
• Threescore Years and Ten: with Sophie Elisabeth de Morgan (1895) (external scan)
• On the study and difficulties of mathematics (1898) (external scan)
• On the Difficulty of Correct Description of Books (1902) (transcription project)
• Essays on the life and work of Newton (1914) (external scan)

• Articles signed as [A.de M.] in the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
• "On the Early History of Infinitesimals," in the Philosophical Magazine, November, 1852.
• Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1882) (external scan) includes correspondence with W. R. Hamilton

Works about de Morgan

• "Augustus De Morgan," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (1875–1889)
• Memoir of Augustus De Morgan by Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan, 1809-1892 (1882) (external scan)
• "De Morgan, Augustus," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "De Morgan, Augustus," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "De Morgan, Augustus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)