1. GEORGE BOOLE by 3B s.i.a. 2012 2013

2. Boole was born in 1815 in the English industrial town of Lincoln. George Boole's father was a tradesman in Lincoln and gave him lessons. Boole was devoted himself to the study of the classics to get closer to mathematics. Boole took place to the local Mechanics Institute, the Lincoln Mechanics' Institution, which was founded in 1833. From the age of 16 he taught in village schools in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and he opened his own school in Lincoln when he was 20.

3. At age 19 Boole successfully established his own school at Lincoln. Four years later he took over Hall's Academy, at Waddington, outside Lincoln. Boole's status as mathematician was recognized by his appointment in 1849 as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, in Ireland. In 1854 he published research on the Laws of Thought, a book that was full of symbolic logic and algebra. Boole was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1857; and received honorary degrees of LL.D. from the University of Dublin and Oxford University. At the age of 24 George published his first paper in the Cambridge mathematical journal.

4. By 1844 he was concentrating on the uses of combined algebra and calculus to process infinity small and large figures. Boole conceived of "elective symbols"(x, y, z, u, v ecc..) of his kind as an algebraic structure. The use of symbols enabled him a much more refined approach to mathematic and logic. His work was a beginning to the algebra of sets, again not a concept available to Boole as a familiar model. Boole soon began to see the possibilities for applying his algebra to the solutions for logical problem. Boole found a way to encore logical arguments into a language that could be manipulated and soled mathematically. Boole’s system was based on a binary approach. His two value system separating arguments into different presence or abseage of a certain property. With the work The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) proposed an interpretation of the relationship between mathematics, logic and philosophy, which provided for an association between logic and mathematics rather than that between logic and metaphysics Boole considered the logic the same way as the science of the laws of the symbols through which we express our thoughts, and applied the philosophy algebraic cantabrigense an unexplored area as that of formal logical created a conceptual tool that underlies the operation of the computer and, in his honor, goes by the name of Boolean algebra This is a logical calculus to two truth values with some particular laws, which allows you to operate in the same way that propositions of mathematical entities.

5. Developed the concepts expressed by Leibinz on the binary system and describes the logical operators that he became known as Boolean operators. Shannon showed that Boole's symbolic logic, as it applies to the representation of true and false, could be used to represent the functions of switches in electronic circuits.This became the basis for the design of digital electronics, with practical applications in telephone switching and computers.Nowadays, when you use a search engine on the internet, we use Boole's mathematical concepts that help us locate information by defining a relationship between the terms we enter.For example, searching for George AND Boole find every article in which the word is the word that George Boole are present.Trying instead George OR. His mathematical works won him many awards.

6. Also cultivated many interests in literature and philosophy: Aristotle, Cicero, Dante and Spinoza were his favorite authors. First admirer and follower of his work was Augustus de Morgan. The major work of Boole was the basis, for studies of electronic circuits and switching, and constituted an important step towards the conception of the modern computer. Boole find every article in which either the word or the word George Boole are present Boole died in 1864 for to an attack of fever; There is a commemorative plaque inside the in the Church of Ireland of St Michael's.