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.

As the 200th anniversary of his birth is marked with a Google doodle, we take a look at the lasting work of English mathematician George Boole Comments News Jeff Parsons Tech/Science reporter 11: ...

The most basic three gates are AND, OR or NOT statements. It's possible to deploy Boolean logic using algebra. Statement A ("Today is Monday") is true. Statement B ("It's currently sunny") is also ...

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 ...

Boolean algebra is the combination of logic and algebra, initially developed by George Boole, for whom the subject is named, in the 1840s and '50s, and later refined by other logicians through the ...