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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.
Contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking [16] 1966 Böhm, Corrado: Theorized of the concept of structured programming. 1847, 1854 Boole, George: Formalized Boolean algebra, the basis for digital logic and computer science. 1947 Booth, Kathleen
George Boole. In computer science, the Boolean (sometimes shortened to Bool) is a data type that has one of two possible values (usually denoted true and false) which is intended to represent the two truth values of logic and Boolean algebra. It is named after George Boole, who first
George Boole Modern logic begins with what is known as the "algebraic school", originating with Boole and including Peirce , Jevons , Schröder , and Venn . [ 115 ] Their objective was to develop a calculus to formalise reasoning in the area of classes, propositions, and probabilities.
George Boole – Boolean logic; Andrew Booth – developed the first rotating drum storage device; Kathleen Booth – developed the first assembly language; Anita Borg (1949–2003) – American computer scientist, founder of Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology; Bert Bos – Cascading Style Sheets
The Boole family is an English family with number of illustrious scientists, intellectuals and artists. 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.
A trans-Atlantic celebration of both George Boole's bicentenary and Claude Shannon's centenary that is being led by University College Cork and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A first event was a workshop in Cork, When Boole Meets Shannon, [114] and will continue with exhibits at the Boston Museum of Science and at the MIT Museum. [115]
Digital logic as we know it was the brain-child of George Boole in the mid-19th century. In an 1886 letter, Charles Sanders Peirce described how logical operations could be carried out by electrical switching circuits. [ 2 ]