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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Charles Ludwig Dodgson


For those who believe not maybe someone can live in the world of creative arts and disciplines such as mathematics and logic together, the life of Charles Ludwig Dodgson is a counterexample. He is better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll, through his book "Alice's Adventure in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass." But rarely know that He is a lecturer at Oxford University since he was eighteen years until his death. He also was the first photographer on the Victorian era.

Charles was the eldest of seven children, therefore, she often accompanied her sisters to play, poetry, storytelling, and drawing the things that can be fun. This habit gives a lot of inspiration for him primarily view their work as Lewis Carroll. In addition to fun with the story, young Charles was also very fond of mathematics. At the age of 8 years, she asked her father to explain the book that contains the logarithm. When his father said that he was too young to understand, he replied, "But please explain."

John Venn


John Venn was known as one of the organizers of modern symbolic logic. Venn get a math degree at the age of 23 years. Two years later, Venn be accepted as a lecturer at Cambridge university lecturer in moral science.

During the mid-19th century, learning logic experiencing rapid development in the UK. Mathematicians create symbols and mengkuantakan main concepts of logical thinking. Consequently, Venn chose to focus on the study of logic for him in Cambridge. In addition, he investigates the field of probability and published The Logic of Chance, one of the main works in 1866.