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Tonight, we\u2019ll read from \u201cElements of Arithmetic\u201d written by Augustus De Morgan and published in 1846.\nDe Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. He was also known as a brilliant and witty writer. Personally, he was an atheist at a time when his expression of belief limited his academic career early. The prejudice didn\u2019t last forever and because of his mathematical legacy, there is a crater on the moon named after him.\nThe history of arithmetic includes the period from the emergence of counting before the formal definition of numbers and arithmetic operations over them by means of a system of axioms. Arithmetic \u2014 the science of numbers, their properties and their relations \u2014 is one of the main mathematical sciences. It is closely connected with algebra and the theory of numbers.\n\u2014 read by N \u2014\nSign up for Snoozecast+ to get expanded, ad-free access by going to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus!\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices