George Peacock
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George Peacock was an English mathematician and Anglican cleric. He founded what has been called the British algebra of logic.
George Peacock
Adam Sedgwick
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Adam Sedgwick was a British geologist and Anglican priest, one of the founders of modern geology. He proposed the Cambrian and Devonian period of the geological timescale. Based on work which he did o
George Peacock
…Algebra (1830) Awards Smith's Prize (1813) Scientific career Fields Mathematician Workplaces Trinity College, Cambridge Academic advisors John Hudson Adam Sedgwick Notable students George Biddell Airy Arthur Cayley Augustus De Morgan W. H. Thompson George Peacock (9 April 1791 – 8 November 1858) was an English…
Portrait of Adam Sedgwick, c. 1863, by Ernest Edwards
Adam Sedgwick
Sedgwick in 1867
Statue of Sedgwick by Edward Onslow Ford in the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge