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  2. Boolean algebra - Wikipedia

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    All concrete Boolean algebras satisfy the laws (by proof rather than fiat), whence every concrete Boolean algebra is a Boolean algebra according to our definitions. This axiomatic definition of a Boolean algebra as a set and certain operations satisfying certain laws or axioms by fiat is entirely analogous to the abstract definitions of group ...

  3. Boolean algebra (structure) - Wikipedia

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    The term "Boolean algebra" honors George Boole (1815–1864), a self-educated English mathematician. He introduced the algebraic system initially in a small pamphlet, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, published in 1847 in response to an ongoing public controversy between Augustus De Morgan and William Hamilton, and later as a more substantial book, The Laws of Thought, published in 1854.

  4. Boolean algebras canonically defined - Wikipedia

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    Boolean algebra is a mathematically rich branch of abstract algebra. Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy defines Boolean algebra as 'the algebra of two-valued logic with only sentential connectives, or equivalently of algebras of sets under union and complementation.' [1] Just as group theory deals with groups, and linear algebra with vector spaces, Boolean algebras are models of the ...

  5. List of Boolean algebra topics - Wikipedia

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    Boolean function; Boolean-valued function; Boolean-valued model; Boolean satisfiability problem; Boolean differential calculus; Indicator function (also called the characteristic function, but that term is used in probability theory for a different concept)

  6. Discrete mathematics - Wikipedia

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    Discrete algebras include: Boolean algebra used in logic gates and programming; relational algebra used in databases; discrete and finite versions of groups, rings and fields are important in algebraic coding theory; discrete semigroups and monoids appear in the theory of formal languages.

  7. Complete Boolean algebra - Wikipedia

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    For a complete boolean algebra infinite de-Morgan's laws hold. A Boolean algebra is complete if and only if its Stone space of prime ideals is extremally disconnected. Sikorski's extension theorem states that if A is a subalgebra of a Boolean algebra B, then any homomorphism from A to a complete Boolean algebra C can be extended to a morphism ...

  8. Boolean ring - Wikipedia

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    Thus every Boolean ring becomes a Boolean algebra. Similarly, every Boolean algebra becomes a Boolean ring thus: xy = x ∧ y, x ⊕ y = (x ∨ y) ∧ ¬(x ∧ y). If a Boolean ring is translated into a Boolean algebra in this way, and then the Boolean algebra is translated into a ring, the result is the original ring. The analogous result ...

  9. Boolean - Wikipedia

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    Boolean ring, a mathematical ring for which x 2 = x for every element x; Boolean satisfiability problem, the problem of determining if there exists an interpretation that satisfies a given Boolean formula; Boolean prime ideal theorem, a theorem which states that ideals in a Boolean algebra can be extended to prime ideals