"Who is George Boole?" is sure to rack up more than a few Google hits over the next 24 hours after the search engine decided to honour the Englishman in an algebraic re-imaging of its Google doodle.

It has set up the Boole2School programme which takes a “George Boole” into classrooms across Ireland to learn more about him. More about Google Mathematics. Join our commenting forum.

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 ...

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 ...

Google is celebrating the 200th anniversary of George Boole’s birth with a special Google Doodle. The English mathematician’s work is especially close to Google’s heart, since his ...

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 ...

George Boole 1815 - 1864 Considered by many as the founding father of computing, George Boole was a brilliant mathematician. He is noted for his work on the area of logic known as Boolean Algebra.

A fascinating parallel between a brilliant mathematician and an arch-villain of crime fiction is drawn in a forthcoming book – New Light on George Boole – by Des MacHale and Yvonne Cohen. Prof ...

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 ...