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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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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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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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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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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Ethel Voynich (redirect from Ethel Lilian Boole)
Ethel Lilian Voynich (née Boole; 11 May 1864 – 27 July 1960) was an Irish-born novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes...
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Look up Boole in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. George Boole (1815–1864) was a British mathematician and philosopher, and originator of Boolean algebra...
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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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(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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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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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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Platon Poretsky (redirect from Boole–Jevons–Schröder–Poretsky method)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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