George Boole
English mathematician, philosopher and logician
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- 1815–1864
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About George Boole
George Boole was an English mathematician and philosopher often credited with revolutionizing logic by transforming it from a philosophical study of language into a mathematical system of algebraic equations using binary values and logical operators.
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