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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...
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    Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her progressive ideas on education, as expounded in The Preparation...
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    became acquainted with Indian thought according to his niece Mary Boole: My uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. [...]...
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    the individual probabilities of the events. Boole's inequality is named for its discoverer, George Boole. Formally, for a countable set of events A1,...
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  • Logic and Probabilities by George Boole, published in 1854, is the second of Boole's two monographs on algebraic logic. Boole was a professor of mathematics...
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    by George Boole (1854) on page 42 of his Laws of Thought. Boole's definition is quoted below. The concept, probably discovered independently by Boole in...
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  • In mathematics, Boole's rule, named after George Boole, is a method of numerical integration. It approximates an integral: ∫ a b f ( x ) d x {\displaystyle...
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    Lilian Boole was born on 11 May 1864, at Lichfield Cottage, Blackrock, Ballintemple, Cork, the youngest daughter of English parents, mathematician George Boole...
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  • Boole's expansion theorem, often referred to as the Shannon expansion or decomposition, is the identity: F = x ⋅ F x + x ′ ⋅ F x ′ {\displaystyle F=x\cdot...
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  • Alicia Boole was born in Cork, Ireland, the third of five daughters of English parents: mathematician and logician George Boole and Mary Everest Boole, a...
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    Boole, claimed a profound influence—via her uncle George Everest—of Indian thought in general and Indian logic, in particular, on her husband George Boole...
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    the two truth values of logic and Boolean algebra. It is named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic in the mid 19th century...
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  • philosopher and logician. Boole's Boolean Algebra laid the foundation of modern computer science. George Boole was born in 1815 to John Boole Sr., a shoemaker...
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  • Ross) More than two millennia later, George Boole alluded to the very same principle as did Aristotle when Boole made the following observation with respect...
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    the mathematician and educator Mary Everest Boole and her husband, the logician George Boole. George Boole's work eventually became one of the foundations...
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    Who Knew Infinity MacHale, Desmond (1995). "George Boole and Sherlock Holmes". The Legacy of George Boole. Cork, Ireland. Lynch, Peter (15 November 2018)...
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    (Visitors' Centre) and an extension to the Boole Library – named for the first professor of mathematics at UCC, George Boole, who developed the algebra that would...
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    up to his mind and then English scientist George Boole showed up. So he decided to call himself Sasha Boole as a compiled name of both persons. He searched...
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    first president of the institute and the curator was John Boole, the father of George Boole. The alterations must have proceeded quickly as by Tuesday...
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  • French author and critic (d. 1889) 1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (d. 1864) 1821 – George Bowen, Irish-English diplomat, 5th Governor-General...
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  • "function" is not explicit, but at least in the work of De Morgan and George Boole it is implied: we see abstraction of the argument forms, the introduction...
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  • Torches, by the report of Muskets, and any instruments of like nature". George Boole published a paper in 1847 called 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'...
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  • kind of logic, function, expression, or theory based on the work of George Boole is considered Boolean. Related to this, "Boolean" may refer to: Boolean...
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    and rounded due to subsequent impacts. It is named after George Boole. To the north of Boole is the crater Cremona, and to the southwest are Paneth and...
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    logic historian John Corcoran and others have shown that the works of George Boole and Gottlob Frege—which laid the groundwork for modern mathematical logic—each...
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  • needed] The Boole family: George Boole: Mathematician and husband of Mary Everest. Mary Everest: Mathematician and wife of George Boole. Ethel Lilian...
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  • algebra describes numerical operations. Boolean algebra was introduced by George Boole in his first book The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847), and set...
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  • would be followed closely by his successors such as Gottlob Frege and George Boole in forming modern symbolic logic. Leibniz was first introduced to the...
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    symbols may also be seen: + {\displaystyle +} was used by George Boole in 1847. Although Boole used + {\displaystyle +} mainly on classes, he also considered...
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    works of logicians and mathematicians George Boole, William Stanley Jevons and Ernst Schröder (known as Boole–Jevons–Schröder–Poretsky method). He discovered...
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