Definition of Boole

1. Noun. English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864).

Exact synonyms: George Boole
Generic synonyms: Mathematician
Derivative terms: Boolean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Boole

Book of Obadiah
Book of Proverbs
Book of Psalms
Book of Revelation
Book of Ruth
Book of Susanna
Book of Tobit
Book of Zachariah
Book of Zephaniah
Book of the Dead
Book of the Prophet Daniel
Book syndrome
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington
Books of Moses
Boole (current term)
Boolean
Boolean algebra
Boolean function
Boolean functions
Boolean lattice
Boolean logic
Boolean ring
Boolean rings
Boolean variable
Boolean variables
Booleans
Boomers
Boon Lay
Boone

Literary usage of Boole

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1880)
"SKETCH OF GEORGE Boole. " A XD pray who is George Boole, that he should be pictured and -£j- sketched in ' The Popular Science Monthly' ? ..."

2. A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century by John Theodore Merz (1907)
"2 George Boole (1815-64), a native of Lincolnshire, was one of the few great and original mathematicians who, like Leibniz and ..."

3. Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century by Alexander Macfarlane (1916)
"Boole received his elementary education at the National School of the city, and afterwards at a commercial school; but it was his father who instructed him ..."

4. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"The Boole of Days, vol. ii. pp. 517-519. OCT. 31.] HALLOW EVE. ... Soane's Boole of the Months, 1849, vol. ii. p. 215 ; see Boole of Days, vol. ii. pp. ..."

5. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Here Boole built almost entirely on his own foundations, for no previous ... [Personal information from Mrs. Boole; obituary notice in Proc. of Royal ..."

6. Report of the Annual Meeting (1858)
"By Professor Boole, FRS The author gave a short resume of Gauss's theory of the ... On certain Additions to the Integral Calculus. By Professor Boole, FRS ..."

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