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George Boole Jnr (/ b uː l /; 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.
Apr 18, 2024 · 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.
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.
George Boole Jnr ( / 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.
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May 11, 2018 · The English mathematician George Boole (1815-1864) invented mathematical, or symbolic, logic and uncovered the algebraic structure of deductive logic, thereby reducing it to a branch of mathematics. George Boole was born on Nov. 2, 1815, in Lincoln.
Nov 2, 2011 · George Boole approached logic in a new way reducing it to a simple algebra, incorporating logic into mathematics. He also worked on differential equations, the calculus of finite differences and general methods in probability.
George Boole dies tragically early, aged 49, on 8 December 1864. He falls victim to pneumonia, having been soaked in a rainstorm while walking to college and teaching in damp clothes. He is buried in the churchyard of St. Michael's Church of Ireland church at Blackrock, County Cork.
Mar 27, 2024 · George Boole was a self-taught mathematician, philosopher, logician and mathematics professor at Queen’s College, Cork in Ireland.
George Boole was an English mathematician and the founder of an algebraic tradition in logic. George worked as a schoolmaster and from the year 1849 to 1864, he was a professor of mathematics at Queen’s University in Cork, Ireland.
George Boole was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician whose work touched the fields of differential equations, probability and algebraic logic. He is now best known as the author of The Laws of Thought.
