About George Paxton Young
Lived 1819 – 1889 (aged 69–70). George Paxton Young was a Canadian 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. He studied the quintic polynomial equation and in 1888 described how to solve a solvable quintic equation, without providing an explicit formula.
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.
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Canadian philosopher
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George Paxton Young was born in 1819.
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George Paxton Young died in 1889.
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