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George Boole

NOV 02, 2015
Physics Today

On this day in 1815, George Boole was born in Lincolnshire, England. Boole was a mostly self-taught mathematician who is most well-known for the development of a binary symbolic logical system that now called Boolean algebra or Boolean logic, without which we would not be sharing this post via computers.

Date in History: 2 November 1815

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