George Boole
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George Boole
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George Boole Jnr 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. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854), which contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic, essential to computer programming, is credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age alongside the w
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English mathematician, philosopher and logician (1815–1864)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
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2002-02-08T05:12:36Z
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2024-08-31T13:27:56Z
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