November 2 is reserved to George Boole
The Lincolnshire-born academic is widely heralded as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th century, devising a system of logic that aimed to condense complex thoughts into simple equations.
His legacy was Boolean logic, a theory of mathematics in which all variables are either "true" or "false", or "on" or "off". The theory preceded the digital age, with American Claude Shannon applying Boolean logic to build the electrical circuits in the 1930s that led to modern computers.
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I do find it interesting that it took so long for someone to come up with this logic, considering mathematics has been around for so long. Perhaps it is because we can often look at solving overly complex problems, rather than looking at simplifying and going back to basics, which may end up applicable in some way to the complex too
ReplyDeleteI see what you are saying Sam Collett, but looked at another way, I'm surprised it got elaborated formally in the 19th century because Boolean algebra finds a home like no other in digital logic. I think in the 19th century it would have been a fairly esoteric branch of set theory.
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