The Mathematical Analysis Of Logic Boole

The Mathematical Analysis of Logic

The Mathematical Analysis of Logic

George Boole, an English mathematician, philosopher, educator, and logician. Worked in the fields of algebraic logic and differential equations, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (ISBN: 978-1548119911) that contains Boolean algebra. Boolean is credited with laying the foundations for the information age. Boole sustained that no general formula for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established that does not explicitly recognize, not only the numerical basis of the science. But also those accepted laws of thought which are the foundation of all reasoning, whatever they may be as to their nature, are at least mathematical as to their form. Boole earned the Keith Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), and received honorary degrees of LL.D. from the University of Dublin and the University of Oxford.

George Boole

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 second book; several were intended for a non-technical work, "The Philosophy of logic", which he was not able to complete. This volume contains an edited selection which not only relates them to Boole's publications and the historical context of his time, but also describes their strange history of family, followers and scholars have treid to confect an edition. The book will appeal to logicians, mathematicians and philosophers, and those interested in the histories of the corresponding subjects; and also students of the early Victorian Britain in which they were written.