Augustus De Morgan, Polymath

Karen Attar is the Curator of Rare Books and University Art at Senate House Library, University of London, and a former Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. She is the reviews editor for Library & Information History, and edited among other works the third edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (Facet, 2016). She has published widely on aspects of library history.

Adrian Rice is the Dorothy and Muscoe Garnett Professor of Mathematics at Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, USA. He has held visiting positions at the University of Virginia (1998-99) and the University of Oxford (2014-15). His research focuses on the history of mathematics in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the work of Augustus De Morgan. Previous books include Mathematics in Victorian Britain, co-edited with Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson (Oxford University Press, 2011) and Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist, co-authored with Christopher Hollings and Ursula Martin (Bodleian Library, 2018).