Definition of George Boole

1. Noun. English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864).

Exact synonyms: Boole
Generic synonyms: Mathematician
Derivative terms: Boolean

Lexicographical Neighbors of George Boole

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Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann
Georg Friedrich Handel
Georg Meissner
Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Simon Ohm
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Steller
George
George's Island
George Armstrong Custer
George Balanchine
George Beadle
George Berkeley
George Bernard Shaw
George Boole (current term)
George Bryan Brummell
George Burns
George Bush
George C. Scott
George Catlett Marshall
George Charles Hevesy de Hevesy
George Dewey
George Dibdin-Pitt
George Dibdin Pitt
George Eastman
George Edward Moore
George Edward Pickett
George Eliot
George Ellery Hale

Literary usage of George Boole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"SKETCH OF George Boole. " A XD pray who is George Boole, that he should be pictured and -£j- sketched in ' The Popular Science Monthly' ? ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1863)
"By Professor George Boole, FRS Received February 9, 1863. (Abstract.) It is shown in the general paper that if an integral of any one equation of the ..."

3. Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century by Alexander Macfarlane (1916)
"George Boole* (1815-1864) George Boole was born at Lincoln, England, on the 26. of November, 1815. His father, a tradesman of very limited means, ..."

4. The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal by William Whewell, Duncan Farquharson Gregory, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Thomson Kelvin, Norman Macleod Ferrers (1851)
"By George Boole, Professor of Mathematics, Queens' College, Cork. IN the prosecution of any special branch of analysis, it is desirable sometimes to pause ..."

5. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1871)
"By tiie late George Boole, FRS Professor of Mathematics in Queen's College, Cork. Communicated* by A. DB MORGAN, Esq. [Read March 16th, 186». ..."

6. A History of the Book of Common Prayer: With a Rationale of Its Offices by Francis Procter (1861)
"By George Boole, DCL Professor of Mathematics in the Queen'; University, Ireland. Svo. sewed, 5i. ... By George Boole, DCL Crown Svo. cloth, 10». 6d. BRETT. ..."

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