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George Boole, English mathematician who helped establish modern symbolic logic and whose algebra of logic, now called Boolean algebra, is basic to the design of digital computer circuits. Boole pointed out the analogy between algebraic symbols and those that can represent logical forms and syllogisms.
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George Boole, (born Nov. 2, 1815, Lincoln, Eng.—died Dec. 8,...
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George Boole Jnr FRS (/ buːl /; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland.
Nov 2, 2011 · Learn about the life and achievements of George Boole, a self-taught mathematician who reduced logic to a simple algebra and applied it to differential equations, calculus and probability. Find out how he became the first Professor of Mathematics at Queen's College, Cork, and faced religious conflicts in Ireland.
This book, aimed at the general reader and now available again, is the first full-length biography of George Boole (1815–1864) who has been variously described as the founder of pure mathematics, one of the fathers of computer science and discoverer of symbolic logic.
Apr 21, 2010 · George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician and a founder of the algebraic tradition in logic. He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen's University, Cork, Ireland. He revolutionized logic by applying methods from the then-emerging field of symbolic algebra to logic.
George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician and a founder of the algebraic tradition in logic. He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen’s University, Cork, Ireland.
George Boole, (born Nov. 2, 1815, Lincoln, Eng.—died Dec. 8, 1864, Ballintemple, Ire.), British mathematician. Though basically self-taught and lacking a university degree, in 1849 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Queen’s College in Ireland.
