How George Boole’s zeroes and ones changed the world

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How George Boole’s zeroes and ones changed the world
Peter Lynch

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The article discusses how the work of Irish mathematician and logician George Boole transformed the modern world through his creation of Boolean algebra, a system that expressed logical ideas using mathematical symbols. Although Boole developed his ideas in the 19th century, their true importance appeared with the invention of digital computers, because his logic of true/false could be represented as binary values (0 and 1) and used to design electronic circuits.

 A self-taught scholar who became a professor at Queen’s College Cork, Boole’s ideas provided the foundation for computer science, digital technology, and modern information systems, making his legacy central to the operation of today’s computers and communication networks. 

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