Google today celebrates the anniversary of the mathematician George Boole with an interactive doodle. Born November 2, 1815 in Lincoln, a town north-east England, the scientist entered the history for creating an algebraic and semantic structure, called “Boolean algebra”, which laid the foundations of the IT. An extraordinary destiny for this self-taught, raised in a poor family, who would almost taught himself Latin, German, French and Italian. To help his family, he is forced to work as a teacher at the age of 16 years.
Four years later, George Boole founded his own school and began studying mathematics. In 1854, he published a long article entitled “An Investigation Into the Laws of Thought, there Which are Founded the Mathematical Logic and Probabilities of Thoeries”. It lays the foundations for a new form of logic. The goal? Translate ideas and concepts into equations. To achieve this, George Boole creates a binary algebra called Boolean, accepting only two numerical values: 0 and 1. His work, although they are purely theoretical, were echoed in a variety of areas: Computer hydraulics.
He was appointed member of the Royal Society in 1857, he contracted pneumonia and died 8 December 1864 to the age of 49. His wife Mary Everest, niece of the head of the cartographic mission that called Mount Everest, had tried to cure it by spraying with water …
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