George Boole

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George Boole

Postby minkwe » Mon Nov 02, 2015 6:34 am

Today Google is celebrating the 200th birthday of the great mathematician and logician George Boole, with a doodle.

https://www.google.com/doodles/george-b ... h-birthday

For those of you who do not know, the celebrated "Bell's inequalities" currently associated with John Bell, were actually discovered by George Boole 100 years earlier, not John Bell.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 8X9400050N
http://bjps.oxfordjournals.org/content/45/1/95.abstract
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.12 ... 60007/meta
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Re: George Boole

Postby FrediFizzx » Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:17 pm

Happy Birthday, George! Thanks for the links.
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