e27.co : Boole came from humble beginnings and worked his way to becoming one of the premier mathematicians of the 19th century.Need motivation to finish that Algebra homework? Make a major mathematical breakthrough and one tech giant might posthumously honour you with a famous Google Doodle.Today, Google celebrated what would have been the 200th birthday of English mathematician George Boole whose ‘Boolean Algebra’ is the theoretical foundation for the modern computer.
In 1854, Boole’s binary approach to math and logic — processing only two functions (on/off, yes/no, zero/one) — influenced modern computing, satellite pictures and even Einstein’s theory of relativity.
While Boole himself did not have the Electrical Engineering background necessary to implement the theory into concrete results, an MIT grad student named Claude Shannon leveraged the idea 83 years later.
Using Boolean logic, Shannon built electrical circuits that eventually led to the modern computer.
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