George Boole would be 200 years old today. And, had he lived, he would have seen the amazing influence of his mathematical work on today's computer-reliant society. Boole become a renowned ...

It’s 200 years since the birth of George Boole, a man whose thinking revolutionised the information age, even though he died long before his ideas took hold. Here are six disciplines that Boole’s ...

He walked the three miles from home to university during a downpour, and then delivered a lecture in drenched clothes ...

__1815: __English mathematician George Boole, who would help establish what is now known as Boolean logic, is born. Boole's breakthrough was the insight that logic, which had previously been ...

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Mathematician and logician George Boole died just 150 years ago, on December 8th, 1864, following a drenching as he was walking between his home and Queen's College, Cork. He was just 49. UCC has ...

George Boole was a British mathematician whose work on logic laid many of the foundations for the digital revolution. The Lincolnshire-born academic is widely heralded as one of the most influential ...

Mathematician George Boole died 150 years ago. Boolean logic, the system he invented, is still used in modern computer programming, writes Chris Stokel-Walker. Boole walked two miles to the lecture ...

The character of Professor James Moriarty, the criminal mastermind and arch-enemy of Sherlock Holmes in the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle series of stories, may have been inspired by genius mathematician ...