George Boole
Mathematician, Author
1815 – 1864
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Who was George Boole?
George Boole was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is now best known as the author of The Laws of Thought. Boole said,
... no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognise ... those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning ...
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- Born
- Nov 2, 1815
Lincoln - Also known as
- Буль Джордж
- 乔治·布尔
- Буль, Джордж
- Spouses
- Mary Everest Boole
(1855 - )
- Mary Everest Boole
- Children
- Religion
- Unitarianism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Lived in
- Lincoln
- Died
- Dec 8, 1864
Ballintemple, Cork
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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