Authoritative account of the development of Boole's ideas in logic and probability theory ranges from "The Mathematical Analysis of Logic" to the end of his career. "The Laws of Thought" formed the most systematic statement of Boole's theories; these studies, incomplete at the time of his death, wer[...]

The need to support his family meant that George Boole (1815-64) was a largely self-educated mathematician. Widely recognised for his ability, he became the first professor of mathematics at Cork. Boole belonged to the British school of algebra, which held what now seems to modern mathematicians to [...]

This book, aimed at the general reader, 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. Boole is mostly remembered as a mathematician and logician whose [...]