Posted on 10/18/2015 2:02:11 PM PDT by beaversmom
With a steely glare, a starched collar and a pair of truly prodigious sideburns, he is the digital pioneer you have almost certainly never heard of. Now, 200 years after his birth, George Boole is finally to get the acclaim he deserves.
A prodigy with a penchant for self-education, Boole was a teenage schoolteacher who rose to become the first professor of mathematics at what is now University College Cork, in 1849. Along the way he penned two seminal books: The Mathematical Analysis of Logic in 1847 and later, in 1854, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought.
While his work has contributed to many branches of mathematics, arguably his greatest achievement was devising an algebraic approach to logic, using a system based on the numbers 1 and 0. More than 70 years after his death, the method was used to develop electronic switching circuits for telephone exchanges and Boolean logic is now at work in everything from smartphones to smart cars.
In a year of celebrations marking Boole’s bicentenary on 2 November, the Victorian pioneer will take to the screen as part of a digital arts festival in his home city of Lincoln. Narrated by Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole charts the course of Boole’s life, from his humble origins as the son of a scientifically minded shoemaker to his enduring legacy in our digital age.
“The application of his research has been vital in all new technologies today, and he hasn’t been recognised,” says Virginia Teehan, director of cultural projects at University College Cork, who commissioned the documentary as part of the university’s Boole200 celebrations.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
We old-timer Applesoft BASIC programmers love our Boolean branching.
And one ‘poof’ from Iran or the Norks and all that ‘logic’ is fried. Would have been better not to have it in the first place, rather than wait around like SITTING DUCKS for that day.
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I do not think it is at all likely to find work in the technology fields without learning Boolean Algebra. It certainly wasn’t back in the late seventies.
The claims he was obscure don’t pass muster.
Or maybe 1 10 11 ...
There are 10 kinds of people in the World. Those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
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"And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do:
and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech" (Gen. 11:6-7).
Binary applications is the one global unifying language that is essentially overcoming those restraints.
hence all the hacks and thefts and eventually NWO. :)
"And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (Mat 24:12 AV).
Overspreading of pornography --
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