Boole

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George, 1815–64, English mathematician and logician.

Boole

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BooleGeorge18151864MEnglishSCIENCE: mathematician George . 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra

Boole

British mathematician who wrote important works in various areas of mathematics. He developed a system of mathematical symbolism to express logical relations that is now known as Boolean algebra.

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Sasha Boole: For more than 10 years, I was doing country and western folk music in Ukraine, trying to combine that with the Ukrainian soul and find new formulas.

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It was formulated by Boole, an Irish mathematician and logician, who redirected the study of reasoning.

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Prof Hinton's great-great-grandfather was British mathematician George Boole, who invented Boolean logic, which later became a key concept in computer science.

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IF George Boole had lived, then he would have celebrated his 200th birthday this week.

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Boole’s home city of Lincoln is also remembering an outstanding local son.

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