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George Boole
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last updated December 8th,
2001
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(3 Muluc (Water) /
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George Boole invented a
mathematical tool for future computer-builders--an "algebra of logic" that
was used nearly a hundred years later to link the
process
of human reason to the operations of machines. The idea came to him in
a flash of inspiration when he was walking across a meadow one day, at
the age of seventeen, but it took him twenty years to teach himself enough
mathematics to write The Laws of Thought.
Although Boole's lifework
was to translate his inspiration into an algebraic system, he continued
to be so
impressed
with the suddenness and
force
of the revelation that hit him that day in the meadow that he also wrote
extensively about the powers of the unconscious mind. After his death Boole's
widow turned these ideas into a kind of human potential cult, a hundred
years before the "me decade."
-_Tools For Thought_ by Howard
Rheingold
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