George Boole, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

George Boole

English mathematician, philosopher and logician

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1815

Place of Birth: Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 08-Dec-1864

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, philosopher, logician

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

George Boole (; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland.
He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains Boolean algebra.
Boolean logic is credited with laying the foundations for the information age.
Boole maintained that: No general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognise, not only the special numerical bases of the science, but also those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning, and which, whatever they may be as to their essence, are at least mathematical as to their form.