1. Presented by: Kevin Steward

3. Born November 2, 1815 in England He started school at 1 ½ By 11 he taught himself Greek and Latin 16 drop out of school, due to his father being bankrupt

4.  George’s further education was self taught  1834 he worked several teaching positions  At 19 he open his own school

5.  Boole became deeply involved in social causes and adult education.  He was a founder of a female home whose function was the rehabilitation of prostitutes. 

6.  During the 1840s and 1850s he developed a notational system that showed that logical statements could be represented by algebraic equations.  George replaced the operation of multiplication by the word 'and' and addition by the word 'or'.

7.  His system linking logic with mathematics was instrumental in the development of digital computer systems.  the two-valued character (binary)  They showed that the binary numbers (0 and 1), combined through Boolean algebra, could be used to analyze electrical switching circuits.

9.  In 1857 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London.  Boole died in 1864 from pneumonia.  Mathematics, Electronics, Logic, Information Theory, and Computer Science are taught, his name will be remembered for his beautiful, simple and universally useful theories.