Biography of George Boole (1815-1864) ...

The Calculus of Logic' by George Boole The Calculus of Logic by George Boole, first published in The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, vol. 3 (1848), is available here in the following formats: HTML (with inlined images) PDF LaTeX DVI PostScript (US Letter size) PostScript (A4 size) Links: George Boole (1815-1864) The History of Mathematics D.R. Wilkins (dwilkins@maths.tcd.ie) School of ...

The papers of George Boole, first Professor of Mathematics at Queens College Cork, are preserved in the archives section of the library which bears his name, the Boole Library, University College, Cork. The inventor of Boolean logic, he laid the foundations in the latter half of the nineteenth century of a system of mathematical expression which formed the basis for all modern computer languages.