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2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-864
Author(s):  
Jeremy Gray
Keyword(s):  
George Boole

The Mathematical Analysis of Logic. George Boole

1949 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-88
Author(s):  
C. West Churchman
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
George Boole

George Boole

1961 ◽  
pp. 63-75
Author(s):  
Herbert Meschkowski
Keyword(s):  
George Boole

George Boole and Claude Shannon

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Nahin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The North ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Biographical Sketches ◽  
George Boole ◽  
The University

This chapter presents brief biographical sketches of George Boole and Claude Shannon. George was born in Lincoln, a town in the north of England, on November 2, 1815. His father John, while simple tradesman (a cobbler), taught George geometry and trigonometry, subjects John had found of great aid in his optical studies. Boole was essentially self-taught, with a formal education that stopped at what today would be a junior in high school. Eventually he became a master mathematician (who succeeded in merging algebra with logic), one held in the highest esteem by talented, highly educated men who had graduated from Cambridge and Oxford. Claude was born on April 30, 1916, in Petoskey, Michigan. He enrolled at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1936 with double bachelor's degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering. It was in a class there that he was introduced to Boole's algebra of logic.

Charles Sanders Peirce: An Overview

1996 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Vincent G. Potter
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Charles Sanders Peirce ◽  
Alfred North Whitehead ◽  
Bertrand Russell ◽  
Gottlob Frege ◽  
Georg Cantor ◽  
Academic World ◽  
American Pragmatism ◽  
George Boole

This chapter provides an overview of the life of Charles Sander Peirce—philosopher, logician, scientist, and father of American pragmatism. This man, unappreciated in his lifetime, virtually ignored by the academic world of his day, is now recognized as perhaps America's most original philosopher and her greatest logician. Indeed, on the latter score, he is surely one of the logical giants of the nineteenth century, which produced such geniuses as Georg Cantor, Gottlob Frege, George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, Bertrand Russell, and Alfred North Whitehead. Today, more than eighty years after his death, another generation of scholars is beginning to pay him the attention he deserves. The chapter shows the brilliant and tragic career of Peirce. Though he never published a book on philosophy, his articles and drafts fill volumes.

New Light on George Boole

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-298
Author(s):  
M. Scanlan
Keyword(s):  
George Boole

George Boole: His Life and Work. Desmond MacHale

Isis ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 77 (3) ◽  
pp. 544-545
Author(s):  
Calvin Jongsma
Keyword(s):  
George Boole

Reviews - A. E. Heath. Preface. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 7–8. - R. Rhees. Note in editing. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 9–43. - George Boole. The mathematical analysis of logic, being an essay towards a calculus of deductive reasoning. A reprint of 191. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 45–119. - George Boole. Later notes (to the foregoing). Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 119–124. (Taken from manuscript in the Library of the Royal Society.) - George Boole. The calculus of logic. A reprint of 192. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 125–140. - George Boole. Sketch of a theory and method of probabilities founded upon the calculus of logic. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 141–166. (From manuscripts in the Royal Society Library, probably before 1851.) - George Boole. Of propositions numerically definite. A reprint of 194. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 167–186. - George Boole. The claims of science, especially as founded in its relation to human nature. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 187–210. (Lecture published in London, 1851.) - George Boole. Logic and reasoning. Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 211–229. (From Royal Society manuscripts, after 1855.) - George Boole. Extracts from a paper entitled “On the mathematical theory of logic and on the philosophical interpretation of its methods and processes.”Studies in logic and probability, by George Boole, Watts & Co., London1952, and the Open Court Publishing Company, LaSalle, Illinois, 1952, pp. 230–246. (From Royal Society manuscripts, later than 1855.)

1959 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Dummett
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Analysis ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Mathematical Theory ◽  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Philosophical Interpretation ◽  
Open Court ◽  
Court Publishing ◽  
George Boole ◽  
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