Boole, George, 1815–64, English mathematician and logician. He became professor at Queen's College, Cork, in 1849. Boole wrote An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) and works on calculus and differential equations. He developed a form of symbolic logic symbolic logic or mathematical logic, formalized system of deductive logic, employing abstract symbols for the various aspects of natural language.
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(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. His original and remarkable general symbolic method of logical inference is fully stated in Laws of Thought (1854). Boole argued persuasively that logic should be allied with mathematics rather than with philosophy, and his two-valued algebra of logic, now called Boolean algebra, is used in telephone switching and by electronic digital computers.
..... Click the link for more information. , called Boolean algebra Boolean algebra (b
..... Click the link for more information. , that is of fundamental importance in the study of the foundations of pure mathematics and is also at the basis of computer technology.
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George Boole, engraving.
(credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.)
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