George Paxton Young

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
Born	9 Nov 1818 Berwick-upon-Tweed
Died	26 Feb 1889 Toronto, Canada
Philosophical work
Era	19th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
Institutions	University of Toronto
Main interests	Boolean algebra, quintic equations, Abelian functions

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]