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Learning by doodling: Augustus De Morgan's logical diagrams

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The half-blind Victorian mathematician Augustus De Morgan was a prodigious doodler, whose letters are festooned with little drawings and cartoons that reflect his feelings, tell jokes, or explain concepts difficult to express in words. De Morgan also created a variety of more elaborate images in the privacy of his study. This paper will consider a detailed series of never-published logical images as reflections of a transcendent vision that essentially grounded De Morgan’s logical programme.

This replaces the seminar that was previously announced for 24 February.

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