#george-boole — Public Fediverse posts

> Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave neither room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/15114
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#GeorgeBoole (1815–64), mathematician, was born #OTD 1815 at Lincoln.

Largely self-taught, he became professor of #mathematics in the Royal College Cork (the forerunner of #UCC) and worked there there until his death.

DIB: https://www.dib.ie/biography/boole-george-a0780

His work which underlies computer programs was originally applied to test the validity of Spinoza's thought.

Ones and Zeros: the life and work of George Boole

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/08/ones-and-zeros/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD #HistoryOfMaths #BooleanAlgebra

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On this day in 1844, #GeorgeBoole submitted a paper to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. One referee rejected it, the other recommended a special prize. This paper was the first mathematics paper to receive the Royal Medal from the Royal Society.

The paper was "On a General Method in Analysis"

https://jstor.org/stable/108362

Source: https://twitter.com/StA_Maths_Stats/status/1612772719921078272?s=20&t=IjMxMyj9ODFUiowPQMSSdQ

#Analysis #Maths

#GeorgeBoole, one of the founders of the computer age and the first Professor of Mathematics at
@UCC, died in Cork #OTD in 1864.

#BertrandRussell, who made efforts to have Boole’s papers printed, said that "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" as “the work in which pure mathematics was discovered”. In it Boole applied his #boolean mathematics to the philosophy of #Spinoza and others as a practical demonstration.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/08/ones-and-zeros/

Bio: https://www.ucc.ie/en/heritage/historicpeople/ucc-staff/professor-george-boole/

#IrishPhilosophyOTD

Mention of Darwin's letters being available online reminds me of the letter sent to #Darwin from #MaryEverestBoole, widow of #GeorgeBoole, asking what were the theological implications of #NaturalSelection.

He replied “ I cannot see how the belief that all organic beings including man have been genetically derived from some simple being, instead of having been separately created bears on your difficulties”.

Darwin seems to have found the whole thing quite odd

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/11/24/science-theology-path/