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BOOLE, GEORGE. 1815-1864. An Investigation of The Laws of Thought on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. London: Macmillan & Co, 1854.
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BOOLE, GEORGE. 1815-1864.
An Investigation of The Laws of Thought on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. London: Macmillan & Co, 1854.
8vo. Publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid-down.
Provenance: Henry Middleton (ownership signature to front pastedown and to title; the Computer History Collection of Serge Roubé.
FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING, this a later issue with Boole's name on spine and Macmillan imprint only. The first full expression of a practical system of algebraic logic (i.e., "Boolean logic"). "Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form, which enabled more advances in logic to be made in the decades of the nineteenth century than in the twenty-two centuries preceding" (Norman 266). In 1937, Claude Shannon would recognize that Boole's true/false values were analogous to the open and closed states of electric circuits, opening the door for binary computing. Norman 266. Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 224.
8vo. Publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid-down.
Provenance: Henry Middleton (ownership signature to front pastedown and to title; the Computer History Collection of Serge Roubé.
FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT WORK IN THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING, this a later issue with Boole's name on spine and Macmillan imprint only. The first full expression of a practical system of algebraic logic (i.e., "Boolean logic"). "Boole invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form, which enabled more advances in logic to be made in the decades of the nineteenth century than in the twenty-two centuries preceding" (Norman 266). In 1937, Claude Shannon would recognize that Boole's true/false values were analogous to the open and closed states of electric circuits, opening the door for binary computing. Norman 266. Hook & Norman Origins of Cyberspace 224.