George Paxton Young

Short description: Canadian philosopher (1818–1889)

George Paxton Young

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

Influences

* Edward Caird, Thomas Hill Green

Influenced

* Charles Taylor (philosopher)

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". https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/george-paxton-young.
2. ↑ "Biography – YOUNG, GEORGE PAXTON – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/young_george_paxton_11E.html.
3. ↑ George Paxton Young, "Solvable Quintic Equations with Commensurable Coefficients", American Journal of Mathematics 10:99–130 (1888), JSTOR 2369502
4. ↑ "Honours and Awards". https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/st-george/graduate/honours-and-awards/.

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