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Katherine Chipman

George Boole (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

  • George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician and a founder of the algebraic tradition in logic. He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen's University, Cork, Ireland. He revolutionized logic by applying methods from the then-emerging field of symbolic algebra to logic. Where traditional (Aristotelian) logic relied on cataloging the valid syllogisms of various simple forms, Boole's method provided general algorithms in an algebraic language which applied to an infinite variety of arguments of arbitrary complexity.
  • Starting at the age of 16 it was necessary for Boole to find gainful employment, since his father was no longer capable of providing for the family. After 3 years working as a teacher in private schools, Boole decided, at the age of 19, to open his own small school in Lincoln. He would be a schoolmaster for the next 15 years, until 1849 when he became a professor at the newly opened Queen's University in Cork, Ireland. With heavy responsibilities for his parents and siblings, it is remarkable that he nonetheless found time during the years as a schoolmaster to continue his own education and to start a program of research, primarily on differential equations and the calculus of variations connected with the works of Laplace and Lagrange (which he studied in the original French).
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    More about George Boole.
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    This is fascinating that he began his career as a school teacher.
Brad Twining

George Boole (1815 - 1864) - 0 views

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    Kind of interesting and it also talks more about other pioneers of mathematics.
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    Short description of Boole and other Pioneers of Technology
Parker Woody

George Boole Biography: English Mathematician and Logician Famous for Boolean Algebra - 0 views

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    Short biography on George Boole
Katherine Chipman

George Boole - 0 views

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    Brief biography of George Boole.
Brian Earley

Boolefest a celebration of the life of George Boole - 0 views

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      Activities arranged around Boole's impact.  Lectures for 4 nights straight.
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      link to a cool video also.
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      Final Project: I think our class could create a short biography about some character from class discussion that would be as good or better than this video.
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    Boolefest! I tried twitter and found this week long event at the University of Lincoln.  We had Boole day on Sunday 10/10/10.  Way to go binary.
Brad Twining

George Boole - 0 views

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    Excerpts from Boole's Laws of Thought
Parker Woody

Boolean Data Type - 0 views

  • Most control structures use a test expression that executes either selection (as in the: if then else) or iteration (as in the while; do while; or for loops) based on the truthfulness or falseness of the expression. Thus, we often talk about the Boolean expression that is controlling the structure. Within many programming languages, this expression must be a Boolean expression and is governed by a tight set of rules. However, in C++ every data type can be used as a Boolean expression because the value of any data type within C++ can be demoted into a Boolean value.
Brad Twining

Bebop to the boolean boogie - 0 views

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    Great book preview for understanding the dry language of Computer algebra.
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