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Considered by many as the founding father of computing, George Boole was a brilliant mathematician. He is noted for his work on the area of logic known as Boolean Algebra. The Calculus of Logic The ...

One of the world's great mathematicians, died in Cork 150 years ago this week, a thinker whose work paved the way for digital computing and modern electronic devices of all kinds. George Boole, who ...

Considered by many as the founding father of computing, George Boole was a brilliant mathematician. He is noted for his work on the area of logic known as Boolean Algebra. George Boole was born on 2nd ...

It’s 200 years since the birth of George Boole, a man whose thinking revolutionised the information age, even though he died long before his ideas took hold. Here are six disciplines that Boole’s ...

Internet search giant Google on Monday dedicated a doodle to noted mathematician George Boole on his 200th birth anniversary. George Boole was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher whose ...

Monday’s Google Doodle features a man, who pretty much laid the foundations for today’s information age. George Boole, who would’ve turned 200 today, according to a University College Cork (UCC) ...

A fascinating parallel between a brilliant mathematician and an arch-villain of crime fiction is drawn in a forthcoming book – New Light on George Boole – by Des MacHale and Yvonne Cohen. Prof James ...