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George Boole

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Noun1.George Boole - English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864)


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Boole, a teacher, was the widow of George Boole who gave his name to Boolean logic, but was also a gifted mathematician in her own right.
His topics include sources of Victorian mathematical idealism, Benjamin Peirce and the divinity of mathematics at Harvard, George Boole and the genesis of symbolic logic, and Augustus de Morgan and the logic of relations.
Boolean Algebra is named after George Boole, an English Mathematician in the 19th Century.
 
 
 
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