George Boole would be 200 years old today. And, had he lived, he would have seen the amazing influence of his mathematical work on today's computer-reliant society. Boole become a renowned ...

The astonishing rise, and untimely death, of George Boole — the 'maverick' Cork maths professor who laid the groundwork for AI ‘Boolean Algebra’ and ‘Boolean Logic’ paved the way for ...

1815: English mathematician George Boole, who would help establish what is now known as Boolean logic, is born. Boole’s breakthrough was the insight that logic, which had previously been ...

It’s almost time to celebrate George Boole’s 200th birthday. Or maybe we should call it Birthday No. 11001000. You might have a hard time converting that binary number to decimal in your head.

George Boole's greatest work came in his book, 'The Laws of Thought' which was published in 1854 while he was working as a professor at University College Cork in Ireland, a position he held till ...

Mathematician George Boole died 150 years ago. Boolean logic, the system he invented, is still used in modern computer programming, writes Chris Stokel-Walker.

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 ...

M onday’s Google Doodle honors what would have been the 200th birthday of famed mathematician George Boole, whose research played a significant role in the 20th century’s digital revolution ...

George Boole Wikimedia Commons There are two main reasons mathematics has fascinated humanity for two thousand years. First, math gives us the tools we need to understand the universe and build ...