The Google Doodle highlights some of Boole’s most important work — Boolean logic, and Boolean operators. Boole died in 1864, but his work was key to the search engines that power much of the ...

George Boole: Five things you need to know about the man behind today's Google Doodle. The mathematician became one of the founding fathers of modern computer science and engineering – despite ...

Portrait of George Boole (Illustrated London News, 21 Jan. 1865) When his father’s shoe business collapsed, 16-year-old George turned his back on a possible career in the church, and took up ...

Monday’s Google Doodle honors what would have been the 200th birthday of famed mathematician George Boole, whose research played a significant role in the 20th century’s digital revolution ...

There is hope for us all. George Boole, the British mathematician who was born 200 years ago today (November 2), shows you can drop out of school and still change the world… even if that change ...

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’s almost time to celebrate George Boole’s 200th birthday.Or maybe we should call it Birthday No. 11001000. You might have a hard time converting that binary number to decimal in your head.

Mathematician and logician George Boole died just 150 years ago, on December 8th, 1864, following a drenching as he was walking between his home and Queen's College, Cork. He was just 49.

George Boole was a British mathematician whose work on logic laid many of the foundations for the digital revolution. The Lincolnshire-born academic is widely heralded as one of the most ...