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December 8, 1864. George Boole died.—While professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork, Boole published his “Differential Equations” and his “Calculus of Finite Differences,” in both of which he employed symbolic methods. His “Laws of Thought ”(1854) is one of the first attempts at “the employment of symbolic language and notation in a wide generalisation of logical processes.”
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S., E. Calendar of Scientific Pioneers. Nature 108, 484 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108484a0
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