I’m very sorry to all that my Uncle DeMorgan could not make it. I’m sure he would be very excited to be here right now in front of all you nice people. I will talk on behalf of him during this time to explain to you how much of a good man he was. My uncle was such a hardworking, loving and loyal man. He was born on June 27, 1806 in India. He was an Indian-born British mathematician (Wikipedia. “Augustus De Morgan.”18 October 2006. 5 December 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan>). When DeMorgan was ten years old his father past away. Everyone noticed his will into math when he was just fourteen years old. His mother noticed all the times he done math and used rulers and compasses. She knew DeMorgan will eventually have a career in math. But his mother wanted DeMorgan to work as a clergyman because she worked for the Church of England. In 1823 when my uncle was sixteen years old he attended Trinity College in Cambridge, where he studied with George Peacock and William Whewell. They became really good friends throughout the years. From Mr. Whewell my uncle had got a more interest to algebra, and then to logic and those are the two subjects that he devoted his life on. My uncle received his secondary education from Mr. Parsons a professor of Oriel College Oxford, who appreciated classics much rather than mathematics. For fun my uncle loved to play the flute. My uncle loved to play the flute all the time for fun and he was very good at it. He was really into sports but he was into musicals for school. That’s what he did for fun. But also he loved the seaside and disliked the country. My uncles schooling and career was not open at his own university so he decided to go to the Bar and moved to London and he loved to read about laws and rules about mathematics. My uncle was introduced as a Professor of Mathematics at the age of 22 years old and at the London University. His introductory lecture “On the study of mathematics” is a discourse upon mental education of permanent value which has been recently reprinted in the United States. The London University is a new university and a lot of Professors had to leave but my uncle was hardworking and stayed there and become to everyone as a Prince of Mathematics. A great achievement that would came from my uncle was the law that young kids use today in math called DeMorgan law which obviously named after him and my uncle was the first to introduce it. The other achievement that I loved was the De Morgan crater on the Moon which is named after my uncle. He also made great advance by introducing quatification of the terms in other words like substituting two terms. My uncle made a lot of achievements which I’m and our whole family is very proud of. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan). On March 18, 1871 at the age of 65 years old a man who is loving, hardworking and the best uncle in the whole world died from nervous prostration after five years of retiring from University College. I would like to say Thank You to my uncle right now if he could hear me for helping me my whole life in math and real life problems, he was such a great uncle. I would like to say thank you to all of you voters and fans who voted the best mathematicians in my eyes into the Hall of Fame of Mathematics. I would
also say a thank you for all who has showed up to support my uncle to help get voted into the hall of fame and to all my family members thank you.
