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  2. George Boole - Wikipedia

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    George Boole (/ b uː l / BOOL; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland.

  3. Boole's rule - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, Boole's rule, named after George Boole, is a method of numerical integration. Formula. Simple Boole's Rule. It approximates an integral: by ...

  4. Past paper - Wikipedia

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    A past paper is an examination paper from a previous year or previous years, usually used either for exam practice or for tests such as University of Oxford, [1] [2] University of Cambridge [3] College Collections. Exam candidates find past papers valuable in test preparation.

  5. Boole family - Wikipedia

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    This is the family of George Boole, a mathematician, 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 and Mary Ann Joyce. George Boole had 3 siblings, 2 brothers and 1 sister, namely Charles Boole, William Boole and Mary Boole.

  6. Killian documents authenticity issues - Wikipedia

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    Charles Johnson's animated GIF image comparing what CBS claimed to be a 1973-era typewritten memo with a 2004-era Microsoft Word document made with default settings. In the initial hours and days after the CBS broadcast, most of the criticism of the documents' authenticity centered on the fact that they did not look like typical typewritten documents and appeared very similar to documents ...

  7. Boole's inequality - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory, Boole's inequality, also known as the union bound, says that for any finite or countable set of events, the probability that at least one of the events happens is no greater than the sum of the probabilities of the individual events. This inequality provides an upper bound on the probability of occurrence of at least one ...

  8. Boole's syllogistic - Wikipedia

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    Square of opposition In the Venn diagrams black areas are empty and red areas are nonempty. The faded arrows and faded red areas apply in traditional logic. Boolean logic is a system 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 entities, such as round squares, without resorting ...

  9. Mary Everest Boole - Wikipedia

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    Mary Everest Boole Curve stitching. Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole.