George Boole (/ˈbuːl/; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) 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. As the inventor of the prototype of what is now called Boolean logic which became the basis of the modern digital computer Boole is regarded in hindsight as a founder of the field of digital electronics. Boole said…
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birth date
1815-11-02
birth place
Lincoln England
death date
1864-12-08
death place
County Cork, Ballintemple Cork
era
19th-century philosophy
influenced
Bertrand Russell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Claude Shannon, William Ernest Johnson, Victor Shestakov, John Maynard Keynes, Augustus De Morgan, William Stanley Jevons
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