George Paxton Young (9 November 1818 – 26 February 1889) was a Canadian philosopher and professor of logic, metaphysics and ethics at the University of Toronto.[1][2] He studied the quintic polynomial equation and in 1888 described how to solve a solvable quintic equation, without providing an explicit formula.[3]
George Paxton Young | |
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| Born | 9 Nov 1818 Berwick-upon-Tweed |
| Died | 26 Feb 1889 Toronto, Canada |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Institutions | University of Toronto |
Main interests | Boolean algebra, quintic equations, Abelian functions |
George Paxton Young Memorial Prize
editThe Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto grants the George Paxton Young Memorial Prize annually to students who read a refereed philosophy paper at an international, national or regional philosophy conference.[4]
References
edit- ^ "George Paxton Young". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Biography – YOUNG, GEORGE PAXTON – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
- ^ George Paxton Young, "Solvable Quintic Equations with Commensurable Coefficients", American Journal of Mathematics 10:99–130 (1888), JSTOR 2369502
- ^ "Honours and Awards". Department of Philosophy.