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 ...
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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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Good. Size: 0x0x0; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Bound in publisher's blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Shelf wear. Tear to head of spine. Gutters weakened. Text block split. Light spotting. vii, 511 pages, 23 cm. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins Universityy.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Dover Publications, 1954. First thus; two volumes bound as one; dust jacket age-toned/very rubbed, very age-toned along spine, chipping and tearing along edges, corners, and spine ends; cover very lightly rubbed/soiled, corners faintly rubbed/bumped, spine ends lightly rubbed/bumped; edges age-toned/very lightly soiled; binding tight; dust jacket, cover, edges, and interior intact and clean, except as noted. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
