George Boole Jnr (/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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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...
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Boole, claimed a profound influence—via her uncle George Everest—of Indian thought in general and Indian logic, in particular, on her husband George Boole...
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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...
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