Jevons was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. His father, Thomas Jevons, was an iron merchant who wrote about legal and economic subjects as well. His mother Mary Anne Jevons was the daughter of William Roscoe. … See more

It was not, however, as a theorist dealing with the fundamental data of economic science, but as a writer on practical economic … See more

Jevons wrote in his 1874 book Principles of Science: "Can the reader say what two numbers multiplied together will produce the number … See more

One of Jevons's contemporaries, Hermann von Helmholtz, who was interested in non-Euclidean geometry, discussed two groups of two-dimensional creatures with one group living in … See more

Jevons arrived quite early in his career at the doctrines that constituted his most characteristic and original contributions to economics and … See more

In 1864 Jevons published a Pure Logic; or, the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity, which was based on Boole's system of logic, but freed from what he considered the false mathematical … See more

In 1867, Jevons married Harriet Ann Taylor, whose father, John Edward Taylor, had been the founder and proprietor of the Manchester Guardian. Jevons suffered from ill health and sleeplessness, and found the delivery of lectures covering so wide a range of … See more