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    George Boole Jnr FRS (/buːl/; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose...
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    Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her progressive ideas on education, as expounded in The Preparation...
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  • 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...
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    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. [...]...
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    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...
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    the individual probabilities of the events. Boole's inequality is named for its discoverer, George Boole. Formally, for a countable set of events A1,...
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  • In mathematics, Boole's rule, named after George Boole, is a method of numerical integration. It approximates an integral: ∫ a b f ( x ) d x {\displaystyle...
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    Lilian Boole was born on 11 May 1864, at Lichfield Cottage, Blackrock, Ballintemple, Cork, the youngest daughter of English parents, mathematician George Boole...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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