Today is George Boole's birthday!!!
(you'd know from the Google's Doodle today)
Get the permalink here: http://www.google.com/doodles/george-booles-200th-birthday
Do you know who is George Boole?
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He is an English mathematician, educator and logician, who introduced the Boolean algebra, which describes the logical relations in digital electronics and modern programming languages :D
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I still remember the 'cool' way to jot notes back in my uni time; for example 'x∧y' instead of 'x and y', which saved a lot of time (and the life of my pen) :D I can tell you, only mathematicians can read my notes; others would have no idea what was I writing!!
- He has been Called the ‘Father of the Information Age’.
- A Shoemaker’s Son, he became a Teacher at the age of 16 Despite Lacking a Formal Education.
- Married educational psychologist Mary Everest in 1855, a niece of the man after whom the world’s highest mountain is named. They had 5 talented daughters, one of whom Ethel Voynich, wrote the best-selling novel The Gadfly.
- Became a teacher at the age of 16 and opened his own school at the age of 21.
- Boole was a Self-Taught Linguist.
- Boole founded two schools in Lincoln.
- He Was the Inspiration for Professor Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes’ Nemesis.
- He Died of Pneumonia at Age 49.
What a great man that made an impact to the world today :)
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