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Introduction: De Morgan: Polymath

Chapter of: Augustus De Morgan, Polymath: New Perspectives on his Life and Legacy(pp. xi–xxxvi)

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TitleIntroduction
SubtitleDe Morgan: Polymath
ContributorKaren Attar(author)
Adrian Rice(author)
Christopher Stray(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0408.00
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0408/chapters/10.11647/obp.0408.00
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightKaren Attar, Adrian Rice and Christopher Stray
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2024-09-04
Long abstractAn introduction to the topics and ideas discussed in the book.
Page rangepp. xi–xxxvi
Print length26 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

Karen Attar

(author)
Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library at University of London
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0898-808X

Karen Attar is the Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library, University of London, and was for many years a Research Fellow at the University’s Institute of English Studies. Her publications cover various aspects of book collecting, library history and librarianship. They include several book chapters on Augustus De Morgan’s library, which she also reconstituted within the University of London and catalogued. She is best known for the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (3rd edn, 2016).

Adrian Rice

(author)
Dorothy and Muscoe Garnett Professor of Mathematics at Randolph–Macon College
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8731-312X

Adrian Rice is the Dorothy and Muscoe Garnett Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, USA. He has held visiting positions at the University of Virginia (1998-99) and the University of Oxford (2014-15). His research focuses on the history of mathematics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the work of Augustus De Morgan. Previous books include Mathematics in Victorian Britain, co-edited with Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist, co-authored with Christopher Hollings and Ursula Martin (Bodleian Library, 2018).

Christopher Stray

(author)
Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Heritage and Classics at Swansea University
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4270-8018

Christopher Stray is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of History, Heritage and Classics at Swansea University. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2012), Beinecke Library, Yale University (2005), and a visiting fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge (1996-98). His principal research interests are the history of classical scholarship and teaching, particularly at the university level; his essay collection Classics in Britain, 1800-2000 was published by Clarendon Press in 2018. He has recently contributed to collaborative projects on William Whewell, Robert Leslie Ellis and Charles Babbage, and his edition of J.M.F. Wright’s 1827 undergraduate memoir Alma Mater; or, Seven Years at the University of Cambridge appeared with University of Exeter Press in 2023.

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