Simply Boole

While his name may not be familiar, if you use a computer, a mobile phone, or other electronic equipment, you are benefitting from the work of George Boole-whose pivotal advances in mathematics and logic are integral to the devices we take for granted today. In Simply Boole, authors Desmond MacHale and Yvonne Cohen trace the life, career, and untimely death of this 19th-century genius, who, in addition to being a great thinker, may have been the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes'...
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While his name may not be familiar, if you use a computer, a mobile phone, or other electronic equipment, you are benefitting from the work of George Boole-whose pivotal advances in mathematics and logic are integral to the devices we take for granted today. In Simply Boole, authors Desmond MacHale and Yvonne Cohen trace the life, career, and untimely death of this 19th-century genius, who, in addition to being a great thinker, may have been the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty!