- Philip Jourdain
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Philip Jourdain Born 1879
Ashbourne, DerbyshireDied 1919
His home in Crookham, Hampshire.Occupation Editor and mathematician Spouse Yes Parents Emily Clay and Francis Jourdain Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain (16 October 1879 – 1 October 1919) was a British logician and follower of Bertrand Russell.
He was born in Ashbourne in Derbyshire[1] one of a large family belonging to Emily Clay and his father Francis Jourdain (who was the vicar at Ashbourne).[2] He was partly disabled by Friedreich's ataxia. He corresponded with Georg Cantor and Gottlob Frege, and took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox.[2] He also worked on algebraic logic, and the history of science with Isaac Newton as a particular study. He was London editor for The Monist.
His sister Eleanor Jourdain was an English academic and author.
References
- ^ *O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Philip Jourdain", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jourdain.html.
- ^ a b Turnbull archive accessed 7 December 2007
External links
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Philip Jourdain", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews, http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Jourdain.html.
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