200 years of the birth of George Boole

Coming from a segment of society whose children were actually deprived of visiting the university, George had to deal with on their own. While the industrial revolution has already taken place in England, the knowledge of ancient languages was an indicator of the level of education a gentleman. Of course, no Latin or Greek is not taught in school, which is attended Boole. Boole himself has studied Greek and Latin, with the support undereducated father, at the age of 12 years has managed to translate Horace ode to English. Baffled as technology transfer, the proud father Boole still had it printed in the local newspaper. Some experts stated that the 12-year-old boy could not make such a transfer, others noted serious technical defects in the translation

By extending the general method of Leibniz formulated 188 years earlier, in which all the true reasons were reduced to the form of calculations, the English mathematician D. Boole in 1854 laid the foundation of what we today know as mathematical logic, published "Study the laws of thought."

In this work, published when he was 39 years old, Boole brought logic to the very simple type of algebra, algebra, propositional logic, which is a system of symbols and rules that are applied to different objects (numbers, letters, proposals).

His theory of logic, based on three main activities - AND , OR , NOT  - was supposed to be in the XX century the basis for developing the switching of telephone lines and computer project. Just as the ideas of Leibniz, Boolean algebra neglected for many years after it was created.

Despite the importance of Boolean algebra in many other areas of mathematics, Boole's work is extraordinary for many years was considered the strangeness. As Babbage, Boole was a man ahead of his time. It happened before, Alfred Whitehead and Bertrand Russell published his three-volume "Principia Mathematica" (1910-1913), which addressed issues of formal logic.