George Boole Jnr (/buːl/; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose... 65 KB (7,498 words) - 11:25, 24 March 2024 |
Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her progressive ideas on education, as expounded in The Preparation... 15 KB (1,824 words) - 01:00, 26 March 2024 |
became acquainted with Indian thought according to his niece Mary Boole: My uncle, George Everest, was sent to India in 1806 at the age of sixteen. [...]... 23 KB (2,810 words) - 06:32, 23 March 2024 |
Domain of discourse (section Boole’s 1854 definition) by George Boole (1854) on page 42 of his Laws of Thought. Boole's definition is quoted below. The concept, probably discovered independently by Boole in... 4 KB (571 words) - 14:55, 7 November 2023 |
Logic and Probabilities by George Boole, published in 1854, is the second of Boole's two monographs on algebraic logic. Boole was a professor of mathematics... 8 KB (1,036 words) - 19:37, 15 March 2022 |
In mathematics, Boole's rule, named after George Boole, is a method of numerical integration. It approximates an integral: ∫abf(x)dx{\displaystyle \int... 5 KB (762 words) - 10:20, 20 February 2024 |
the individual probabilities of the events. Boole's inequality is named for its discoverer, George Boole. Formally, for a countable set of events A1,... 10 KB (1,956 words) - 02:27, 10 April 2024 |
Alicia Boole was born in Cork, Ireland, the third of five daughters of English parents: mathematician and logician George Boole and Mary Everest Boole, a... 8 KB (855 words) - 15:44, 16 April 2024 |
Ethel Voynich (redirect from Ethel Lilian Boole) Lilian Boole was born on 11 May 1864, at Lichfield Cottage, Blackrock, Ballintemple, Cork, the youngest daughter of English parents, mathematician George Boole... 15 KB (1,839 words) - 03:51, 16 March 2024 |
kind of logic, function, expression, or theory based on the work of George Boole is considered Boolean. Related to this, "Boolean" may refer to: Boolean... 2 KB (252 words) - 21:44, 15 January 2024 |
Who Knew Infinity MacHale, Desmond (1995). "George Boole and Sherlock Holmes". The Legacy of George Boole. Cork, Ireland. Lynch, Peter (15 November 2018)... 27 KB (3,424 words) - 16:40, 20 April 2024 |
Boole's expansion theorem, often referred to as the Shannon expansion or decomposition, is the identity: F = x ⋅ F x + x ′ ⋅ F x ′ {\displaystyle F=x\cdot... 8 KB (1,234 words) - 16:20, 10 November 2022 |
Law of thought (section Boole (1854): From his "laws of the mind" Boole derives Aristotle's "Law of contradiction") Ross) More than two millennia later, George Boole alluded to the very same principle as did Aristotle when Boole made the following observation with respect... 82 KB (11,577 words) - 02:11, 8 March 2024 |
Platon Poretsky (redirect from Boole–Jevons–Schröder–Poretsky method) works of logicians and mathematicians George Boole, William Stanley Jevons and Ernst Schröder (known as Boole–Jevons–Schröder–Poretsky method). He discovered... 6 KB (468 words) - 03:53, 20 January 2024 |
the two truth values of logic and Boolean algebra. It is named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic in the mid 19th century... 27 KB (2,985 words) - 23:23, 6 March 2024 |
History of the function concept (section George Boole's The Laws of Thought 1854; John Venn's Symbolic Logic 1881) "function" is not explicit, but at least in the work of De Morgan and George Boole it is implied: we see abstraction of the argument forms, the introduction... 78 KB (10,636 words) - 22:16, 7 January 2024 |
Torches, by the report of Muskets, and any instruments of like nature". George Boole published a paper in 1847 called 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic'... 17 KB (2,064 words) - 13:35, 15 April 2024 |
algebra describes numerical operations. Boolean algebra was introduced by George Boole in his first book The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847), and set... 73 KB (9,405 words) - 16:33, 27 April 2024 |
would be followed closely by his successors such as Gottlob Frege and George Boole in forming modern symbolic logic. Leibniz was first introduced to the... 55 KB (6,643 words) - 01:54, 23 April 2024 |
Que Publishing, p. 45, ISBN 9780789728616. The Calculus of Logic, by George Boole, Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal Vol. III (1848), pp. 183–98... 4 KB (426 words) - 08:02, 14 April 2024 |
Term logic (section Boole’s acceptance of Aristotle) Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. p. 41. Copleston's A History of Philosophy George Boole. 1854/2003. The Laws of Thought, facsimile of 1854 edition, with an introduction... 29 KB (3,906 words) - 17:31, 19 April 2024 |
been explicitly stated by Frege, and arguably it was already assumed by George Boole decades before Frege's work. The principle of compositionality is highly... 13 KB (1,404 words) - 22:02, 31 March 2024 |
British and Irish mathematicians including Charles James Hargreave, George Boole, Bownin, Carmichael, Doukin, Graves, Murphy, William Spottiswoode and... 16 KB (1,700 words) - 02:41, 8 March 2024 |
Ireland. He is an author and speaker on several subjects, including George Boole, lateral thinking puzzles, and humour. He has published over 80 books... 10 KB (1,051 words) - 20:03, 24 January 2024 |
manipulation". The Boole family: George Boole: Mathematician and husband of Mary Everest. Mary Everest: Mathematician and wife of George Boole. Ethel Lilian... 10 KB (1,108 words) - 22:13, 14 March 2024 |
(1815–1852). 1854: Boolean algebra, the basis for digital logic, conceived by George Boole (1815–1864). 1912: Argo system, the world's first electrically powered... 160 KB (16,528 words) - 22:00, 7 April 2024 |