There are two main reasons mathematics has fascinated humanity for two thousand years. First, math gives us the tools we need to understand the universe and build things. Second, the study of ...

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 ...

__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 ...

It is well known that in his logical writings Leibniz typically disregarded the operation of (conceptual) disjunction, confining himself to the theory of conjunction ajid negation. Now, while this ...