

This fascinating letter by William Hamilton, one of the leading mathematicians and thinkers of the Victorian era, offers a critique of Augustus De Morgan's seminal work on symbolic logic, A Budget of Paradoxes. Hamilton argues that De Morgan's work is flawed, and offers a...

This fascinating letter by William Hamilton, one of the leading mathematicians and thinkers of the Victorian era, offers a critique of Augustus De Morgan's seminal work on symbolic logic, A Budget of Paradoxes. Hamilton argues that De Morgan's work is flawed, and offers a...