George Boole (1815–1864)
Forfatter af An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities
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Born in Lincolnshire, England, George Boole was a mathematician and logician at Queens College in Cork, Ireland, where he taught and developed his theory of logic. Well respected by his friends and associates, he had a reputation of being a kind of naive saint, who thought nothing of inviting a vis mere stranger to his home to continue a conversation that the two of them had begun on a train or in a shop. Boole's development of symbolic logic had three major emphases. First, Boole believed that mathematicians of his day unnecessarily restricted themselves to the study of quantities and did not pay enough attention to abstract symbols. Second, he concerned himself with the relation between logic and language. Third, he studied the proper representation of mental operations. Thus, Boole moved from quantity to symbols to language and finally to the rules of the thinking mind itself. In 1847 Boole expressed his ideas in a pamphlet titled The Mathematical Analysis of Logic. Boole is remembered for using familiar symbols of algebra and arithmetic to help represent ideas of logic. The system he used is now known as Boolean algebra. In creating his algebra of logic, Boole followed in the footsteps of the classical algebraists. Through careful analysis and resourcefulness, he developed a practical language for representing and solving a broad class of mathematical problems. Boole's contributions can be seen today in the design of the modern digital computer. Boole died in 1864. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af George Boole
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (1854) 290 eksemplarer
George Boole - Selected Manuscripts on Logic and its Philosophy (Science Networks. Historical Studies) (1997) 6 eksemplarer
Derivation of the laws of the symbols of logic from the laws of the operations of the human mind : an excerpt from the… (1991) 3 eksemplarer
A Miscellany - George Boole 1 eksemplar
Collected logical works. Volume I: Studies in Logic and Probability. Volume II: Laws of Thought. (2 volumes) 1 eksemplar
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- Fødselsdato
- 1815-11-02
- Dødsdag
- 1864-12-08
- Begravelsessted
- St. Michael's Churchyard, Blackrock, Cork, Ireland
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- male
- Nationalitet
- UK
- Fødested
- Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland
- Bopæl
- Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Cork, County Cork, Ireland - Erhverv
- mathematician
professor - Relationer
- Boole, Mary Everest (wife)
Voynich, Ethel Lilian (daughter)
Hinton, William (great-grandson)
Taylor, Sir Geoffrey Ingram (grandson) - Organisationer
- University of Cork (Professor of Mathematics)
Queen's University, Ireland (Professor of Mathematics)
Cambridge Philosophical Society (Honorary Member) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fellow of the Royal Society (1857)
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The Mathematical Analysis of Logic: Being an Essay… af George Boole
A historical scanning of a book on Logic. I have no complaints on the text, since I know it is a scanned reproduction of a previous work. It's pretty well explained, and it seems to be a bare bones introduction to Mathematical Logic. It shows the basis of the signs, and introduces a method to manipulate them. There isn't really much else to say, it doesn't have any workable problems, it only shows how to do the basic operations. This sort of thing didn't really surprise me, since it is pretty short.… (mere)
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