Author of An Investigation of the Laws of Thought by George Boole, applying symbolic operations to mathematical logic.
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George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician, logician, and philosopher, best known for his work in the fields of algebra and logic. He is regarded as one of the founders of symbolic logic and made significant contributions to mathematics, particularly in the area of what is now called Boolean algebra. Boolean algebra is a branch of algebra that deals with binary values (true and false, often represented as 1 and 0).