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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day. The utility of "Boolean algebra" in computing has greatly increased curiosity in the nature and extent of his achievements. His work is most accessible in his two books on logic, "A mathematical analysis of logic" (1947) and "An investigation of the laws of thought" (1954). But at various times he wrote manuscript essays, especially after the publication of the...
George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his in...
Originally published in 1800. CALCULUS OF FINITE DIFFERENCES by GEORGE BOOLE. PREFACE: IN the following exposition of the Calculus of Finite Dif ferences, particular attention has been paid to the connexion of its methods with those of the Differential Calculus a connexion which in some instances involves far more than a merely formal analogy. Indeed the work is in some measure designed as a sequel to my Treatise on Differential Equations. And it has been composed on the same plan. Mr Stirling, of Trinity College, Cambridge, has rendered me much valuable assistance in the revision of the...
Originally published in 1800. CALCULUS OF FINITE DIFFERENCES by GEORGE BOOLE. PREFACE: IN the following exposition of the Calculus of Finite Dif feren...
Self-taught mathematician and father of Boolean algebra, George Boole (1815 1864) published A Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences in 1860 as a sequel to his Treatise on Differential Equations (1859). Both books became instant classics that were used as textbooks for many years and eventually became the basis for our contemporary digital computer systems. The book discusses direct theories of finite differences and integration, linear equations, variations of a constant, and equations of partial and mixed differences. Boole also includes exercises for daring students to ponder, and...
Self-taught mathematician and father of Boolean algebra, George Boole (1815 1864) published A Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences in 1860 a...
Self-taught mathematician George Boole (1815 1864) published a pamphlet in 1847 The Mathematical Analysis of Logic that launched him into history as one of the nineteenth century's most original thinkers. In the introduction, Boole closely adheres to two themes: the fundamental unity of all science and the close relationship between logic and mathematics. In the first chapter, he examines first principles of formal logic, and then moves on to Aristotelian syllogism, hypotheticals, and the properties of elective functions. Boole uses this pamphlet to answer a well-known logician of the day,...
Self-taught mathematician George Boole (1815 1864) published a pamphlet in 1847 The Mathematical Analysis of Logic that launched him into history as o...
Self-taught mathematician and father of Boolean algebra, George Boole (1815 1864) published An Investigation of the Laws of Thought in 1854. In this highly original investigation of the fundamental laws of human reasoning, a sequel to ideas he had explored in earlier writings, Boole uses the symbolic language of mathematics to establish a method to examine the nature of the human mind using logic and the theory of probabilities. Boole considers language not just as a mode of expression, but as a system one can use to understand the human mind. In the first 12 chapters, he sets down the rules...
Self-taught mathematician and father of Boolean algebra, George Boole (1815 1864) published An Investigation of the Laws of Thought in 1854. In this h...
At the age of twenty, George Boole taught himself mathematics, then worked his way through the mathematics of his day, published papers in a wide range of mathematical fields, until, in this remarkably accessible seminal work, he laid down postulates and axioms for logic for the first time - just as Euclid had done for geometry. Boolean algebra has become the basis for practical digital circuit design; thus Boole has provided the theoretical grounding for the Information Age.
"A classic of pure mathematics and symbolic logic"- Scientific American. "Pure mathematics was...
At the age of twenty, George Boole taught himself mathematics, then worked his way through the mathematics of his day, published papers in a wide rang...
