George Paxton Young

George Paxton Young
Born9 Nov 1818
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Died26 Feb 1889
Toronto, Canada
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Main interests
Boolean algebra, quintic equations, Abelian functions

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 Memorial Prize

The 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

  1. ^ "George Paxton Young". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ "Biography – YOUNG, GEORGE PAXTON – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
  3. ^ George Paxton Young, "Solvable Quintic Equations with Commensurable Coefficients", American Journal of Mathematics 10:99–130 (1888), JSTOR 2369502
  4. ^ "Honours and Awards". Department of Philosophy.


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