George Paxton Young

George Paxton Young
Born(1818-11-09)9 November 1818
Berwick-upon-Tweed
Died26 February 1889(1889-02-26) (aged 70)
Toronto, Canada
Philosophical work
Era19th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Main interestsBoolean 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. He studied the quintic polynomial equation and in 1888 described how to solve a solvable quintic equation, without providing an explicit formula.

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