Augustus De Morgan: 5 books

One of the twentieth century's most eminent mathematical writers, Augustus De Morgan enriched his expositions with insights from history and psychology. On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics represents some of his best work, containing points usually overlooked by elementary treatises, and written...

A Budget of Paradoxes is a classic work by the famous mathematician Augustus De Morgan. A table of contents is included.

No apology is needed for the publication of the present new edition of The Study and Difficulties of Mathematics,— a characteristic production of one of the most eminent and luminous of English mathematical writers of the present century. De Morgan, though taking higher rank as an original inquirer...

DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS. ELEMENTARY ILLUSTRATIONS. The Differential and Integral Calculus, or, as it was formerly called, the Doctrine of Fluxions, has always been supposed to present remarkable obstacles to the beginner. It is matter of common observation that anyone who commences...

If I had before me a fly and an elephant, having never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind; and if the fly were to endeavor to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant, I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty. The apparently little creature might use such arguments about...