George Boole Philosopher

George Boole (/ˈbuːl/; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is now best known as the author of The Laws of Thought. Boole said,... no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognise ... those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning ...

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Birth date	November 02, 1815
Birth place	Lincoln England
Date of death	December 08, 1864
Place of death	County Cork , Ballintemple Cork
Era	19th-century philosophy
Main interest	Philosophy of mathematics Logic

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influenced	Bertrand Russell Charles Sanders Peirce Claude Shannon William Ernest Johnson Victor Shestakov John Maynard Keynes Augustus De Morgan William Stanley Jevons
influenced by	Aristotle Baruch Spinoza Isaac Newton
notable idea	Boolean algebra
philosophical school	Computing