George Boole

George Boole was a mathematician in the 19th century. He helped establish modern symbolic logic and created algebra of logic, which they now called Boolean algebra. Boolean algebra is basic to the design of digital computers that we use today. George’s father, a tradesman, gave Boole his first math lessons. He also taught George how to make optical instruments. Boole was mostly self-taught in math, even though he spent a few years in public …

…Different classes can then be treated as to the presence or absence of the same property. In 1857, Boole was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society. These are some of the many reasons why Boole has helped the modern use of Boolean algebra and other things that have to do with logic. It is also because of him that we have computers. Without logic, or Boolean algebra, we probably would not have computers today.