The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1782050043 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-31 |
| Language | : | English |
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Desmond MacHale is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, where Boole was the first Professor of Mathematics.Ian Stewart
"Insight into the mind of George Boole, one of the fathers of the computer and important mathematicl insights." according to Stephen M. Newman. George Boole is one of the most fascinating thinkers in history. Self taught, he created completely original mathematics. He made logic into a branch of algebra. Claude Shannon turned his math into the circuits of modern electronics. The one weakness of the book is it spends a bit too much time on fairly minor campus political issues. Boole's 200th birthday in 2015 makes this a timely read
After his father’s business failed he supported the entire family by becoming an assistant teacher, eventually opening his own boarding school in Lincoln. Boole was forced to leave school at the age of sixteen and never attended a university. Much of the "new mathematics" now studied by children in school – set theory, binary numbers and Boolean algebra, has its origins in Boole’s work.In 1849, Boole was appointed first professor of mathematics in Ireland’s new Queen’s College (now University College) Cork and taught and worked there until his tragic and premature death in 1864. In 1855, he had married Mary Everest, a niece of the man after whom the world’s highest mountain is named. * Founder of the field of Computer Science* 2015 is the 200th anniversary of Boole's birthThis book is the first full-length biography of George Boole (1815–1864), who has been variously described as the founder of pure mathematics, father of computer science and discoverer of symbolic logic. He began to produce original mathematical research and, in 1844, he was awarded the first gold medal for mathematics by the Royal Society.Boole was deeply interested in the idea of expressing the workings of t
"MacHale's book is a major achievement…d deserves to be a bestseller." (Times Higher Education Supplement)