The Mathematical Analysis of Logic Boole Paperback Cambridge University Press

Name: The Mathematical Analysis of Logic Boole Paperback Cambridge University Press
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The Mathematical Analysis of LogicBeing an Essay Towards a Calculus of Deductive Reasoning\nAuthor(s): George Boole\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108001014, 978-1108001014\nSynopsis\nSelf-taught mathematician George Boole [tel] published a pamphlet in 1847 The Mathematical Analysis of Logic that launched him into history as one of the nineteenth century's most original thinkers. In the introduction, Boole closely adheres to two themes: the fundamental unity of all science and the close relationship between logic and mathematics. In the first chapter, he examines first principles of formal logic, and then moves on to Aristotelian syllogism, hypotheticals, and the properties of elective functions. Boole uses this pamphlet to answer a well-known logician of the day, Sir William Hamilton, who believed that only philosophers could study 'the science of real existence', while all mathematicians.