1. By John Beverly

2. Born in Lincolnshire, England – Nov. 8, 1815 Professor of Queens College, Cork (now University College Cork) in Ireland – 1850 Married a few years after 1850 Awarded honorary degrees of LL.D. (double law doctorate) from the University of Dublin and Oxford University – date unknown Died in Ballintemple, Ireland (age 49) – Dec. 8, 1864 BACKGROUND Lincolnshire, England University College, Cork Boole’s grave, Cork

3. Born in Lincolnshire, England Taught himself modern languages Briefly took teaching position to help support family – age 16 Established his own school in Lincoln – age 19 He dead – 1864 Died of fever-induced pleural effusion Hum-boole BeginningsNot with a bang, but a Boole THE LIFE (: & DEATH ): OF BOOLE

4. Differential Equations Analysis Probability theory Symbolic Logic NOTABLE WORKS

5. SYMBOLIC LOGIC: BOOLEAN ALGEBRA What is it: Subfield of algebra How’s: it work: “AND”, “OR”, & “NOT “ are basic operations, and “TRUE” & FALSE are the variables Applications: Digital logic – fundamental to computer programing because it utilizes only 2 values ( “1” and “0”)

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