George Boole Jnr (/buːl/; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose...
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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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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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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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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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Domain of discourse (section Boole’s 1854 definition)
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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Ethel Voynich (redirect from Ethel Lilian Boole)
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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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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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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Law of thought (section Boole (1854): From his "laws of the mind" Boole derives Aristotle's "Law of contradiction")
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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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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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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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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founding fathers of artificial intelligence. He is credited alongside George Boole for laying the foundations of the Information Age. At the University...
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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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History of the function concept (section George Boole's The Laws of Thought 1854; John Venn's Symbolic Logic 1881)
"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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(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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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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Ireland. He is an author and speaker on several subjects, including George Boole, lateral thinking puzzles, and humour. He has published over 80 books...
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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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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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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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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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Term logic (section Boole’s acceptance of Aristotle)
Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. p. 41. Copleston's A History of Philosophy George Boole. 1854/2003. The Laws of Thought, facsimile of 1854 edition, with an introduction...
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been explicitly stated by Frege, and arguably it was already assumed by George Boole decades before Frege's work. The principle of compositionality is highly...
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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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of syllogistic logic invented by 19th-century British mathematician George Boole, which attempts to incorporate the "empty set", that is, a class of non-existent...
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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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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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