[HN Gopher] Annotated version of Boole's 1847 "Algebra of Logic"... ___________________________________________________________________ Annotated version of Boole's 1847 "Algebra of Logic" (2019) [pdf] Author : auggierose Score : 57 points Date : 2022-07-31 09:45 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.math.uwaterloo.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (www.math.uwaterloo.ca) | mwattsun wrote: | In the Navy when I went to Electricians Mate School in 1979 | before going on to Nuclear Power School, we studied Boolean | Algebra with this manual: | | Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series: Module 13-- | Introduction to Number Systems and Logic | | http://www.tscm.com/NEETS-v13-Logic.pdf | | _Boolean logic, or Boolean algebra as it is called today, was | developed by an English mathematician, George Boole, in the 19th | century. He based his concepts on the assumption that most | quantities have two possible conditions TRUE and FALSE... | Boolean algebra is used primarily by design engineers._ | | I became fascinated with it. Most of my buddies went to the | nuclear industry when they got out but I got out as soon as I | could and went into computers. | | Fun fact: Boole's youngest of five daughters Ethel [2] married | Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired the Voynich Manuscript in Italy in | 1912 [1]. | | [1] _The Voynich Manuscript is one of the world's most mysterious | books written in code. The manuscript gets its name from Wilfred | Michail Voynich (1865-1930), George Boole's son-in-law. Several | attempts by world class codebreakers (including Alan Turing) have | failed to definitively unravel its meanings._ | | https://georgeboole.com/news/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscri... | | [2] _Ethel Lilian (1864-1960), who married the Polish scientist | and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of | the novel The Gadfly._ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Voynich | matonias wrote: | What other older resources can be used to learn math? The basic | of basics, starting points in history that are often overlooked | 082349872349872 wrote: | Stoikheia? | eointierney wrote: | Euclid is still excellent. | | In general we're better off reading modern treatments because | they have more context and more convenient notation. | | That said, it's important to read the old texts precisely | because they elucidate the state of the art as it was, and so | help us understand not only how far we've come but how we got | to where we are now. | | One of my professors wrote the canonical biography of Boole. I | read it, and learned as much about Boole as I did about Des | MacHale. | | In a roundabout way what I'm trying to say is learn the | mathematics and the mathematician, you won't be disappointed. | 082349872349872 wrote: | Great shout! Does anyone know of a similar treatment of | Zhegalkin/Reed-Muller calculational logic? | jbverschoor wrote: | Imagine all programmers using your short name as a type. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-01 23:01 UTC)