02 Nov 2015

George Boole
Mathematician
George Boole was an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought which contains Boolean algebra. Wikipedia
Born: November 2, 1815, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Died: December 8, 1864, Ballintemple, Cork, Republic of Ireland
Influenced: Charles Sanders Peirce, William Stanley Jevons, more
Spouse: Mary Everest Boole (m. 1855–1864)
Awards: Royal Medal

George Boole (2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought which contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic is credited with laying the foundations for the information age.Boole maintained that:No general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognise, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.