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.
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