The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (Key Texts) [Facsimile] [Paperback]

George Boole (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1998 | ISBN-10: 1855065835 | ISBN-13: 978-1855065833 | Edition: Facsimile of 1847 ed

George Boole (1815-1864) is renowned as the first logician to apply algebraic methods to logic successfully. His Mathematical Analysis of Logic, first published in 1847, was the ground-breaking work that laid the foundations for what is known today as Boolean algebra and the propositional calculus. Written in response to the altercation between Sr. William Hamilton and Augustus de Morgan over the quantification of the predicate within syllogistic theory, its remarkable innovations led other logicians, among them William Stanley Jevons, John Venn, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Ernst Schrder, to refine and develop Boole's system. In turn, their efforts were incorporated by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell into the monumental system of Principia Mathematica. In short, modern symbolic logic was founded in the pages of this book.

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In 1847, mathematician George Boole published a pamphlet, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, which launched him into history as one of the nineteenth century's most innovative thinkers. This work was the first to construct a mathematics of logic and the human intellect, establishing the close relationship between mathematics and philosophy. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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• Paperback: 82 pages
• Publisher: Thoemmes Pr; Facsimile of 1847 ed edition (October 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1855065835
• ISBN-13: 978-1855065833
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,812,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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