George Boole Essay

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George Boole Abdulla Albanna Table of contents I- Early Life……………………………………………………………………………1 II-Early Career………………………………………………………………………1 III-Major Life...........................................................1-2 IV- Boolean Logic………………………………………………………………2-3 V-Bibliography………………………………………………………………………3 ------------------------------------------------- Early Life George Boole was born in the industrial town of Lincoln, England on November 2, 1815. He was the son of a shoemaker in a low class family. Boole did not receive much formal education, but was taught by the adults who surrounded him. His father taught him until the age of eight. When he had surpassed his father’s education, a family friend stepped in and taught Boole Latin. By the age of twelve Boole was translating Latin poetry and within the next four years he learned and became fluent in German, Italian and French. ------------------------------------------------- Early Career When George was at the young age of sixteen he became an assistant teacher at a nearby elementary school and by the age of twenty he opened his own school. When Boole opened his school he began seriously studying mathematics due to the lack of modern math in the text books he used. He wanted to be able to properly educate his students so he intensely investigated the principles of Sir Isaac Newton and French mathematicians Pierre Simon Laplace and Joseph-Louis Lagrange. Soon, he mastered the most intricate mathematical principles of the time. ------------------------------------------------- Major Work Page 1 At the age of twenty-four in the year 1840, Boole published his first paper on the topic of "Researches on the Theory of Analytical Transformations" in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal. In 1844 Boole was given a gold medal by the Royal Society for his paper on

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