An Investigation of the Laws of Thought - Softcover

George Boole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160386315X ISBN 13: 9781603863155

Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

An investigation of the laws of thought on which are founded the mathematical theories of logic and probabilities - an unabridged edition.

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Book Description

George Boole, the father of Boolean algebra, published An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, a seminal work on algebraic logic, in 1854. In this investigation of the fundamental laws of human reasoning, Boole uses the symbolic language of mathematics to examine the nature of the human mind.

About the Author

George Boole; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was an English mathematician, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is now best known as the author of The Laws of Thought. As the inventor of the prototype of what is now called Boolean logic, which became the basis of the modern digital computer, Boole is regarded in hindsight as a founder of the field of computer science. Boole said, ... no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly recognise ... those universal laws of thought which are the basis of all reasoning

Edition details

• Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160386315X
• ISBN 13: 9781603863155
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336