[HN Gopher] Annotated version of Boole's 1847 "Algebra of Logic"...
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       Annotated version of Boole's 1847 "Algebra of Logic" (2019) [pdf]
        
       Author : auggierose
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2022-07-31 09:45 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | mwattsun wrote:
       | In the Navy when I went to Electricians Mate School in 1979
       | before going on to Nuclear Power School, we studied Boolean
       | Algebra with this manual:
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       | Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series: Module 13--
       | Introduction to Number Systems and Logic
       | 
       | http://www.tscm.com/NEETS-v13-Logic.pdf
       | 
       |  _Boolean logic, or Boolean algebra as it is called today, was
       | developed by an English mathematician, George Boole, in the 19th
       | century. He based his concepts on the assumption that most
       | quantities have two possible conditions  TRUE and FALSE...
       | Boolean algebra is used primarily by design engineers._
       | 
       | I became fascinated with it. Most of my buddies went to the
       | nuclear industry when they got out but I got out as soon as I
       | could and went into computers.
       | 
       | Fun fact: Boole's youngest of five daughters Ethel [2] married
       | Wilfrid Voynich, who acquired the Voynich Manuscript in Italy in
       | 1912 [1].
       | 
       | [1] _The Voynich Manuscript is one of the world's most mysterious
       | books written in code. The manuscript gets its name from Wilfred
       | Michail Voynich (1865-1930), George Boole's son-in-law. Several
       | attempts by world class codebreakers (including Alan Turing) have
       | failed to definitively unravel its meanings._
       | 
       | https://georgeboole.com/news/the-mysterious-voynich-manuscri...
       | 
       | [2] _Ethel Lilian (1864-1960), who married the Polish scientist
       | and revolutionary Wilfrid Michael Voynich and was the author of
       | the novel The Gadfly._
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Voynich
        
       | matonias wrote:
       | What other older resources can be used to learn math? The basic
       | of basics, starting points in history that are often overlooked
        
         | 082349872349872 wrote:
         | Stoikheia?
        
         | eointierney wrote:
         | Euclid is still excellent.
         | 
         | In general we're better off reading modern treatments because
         | they have more context and more convenient notation.
         | 
         | That said, it's important to read the old texts precisely
         | because they elucidate the state of the art as it was, and so
         | help us understand not only how far we've come but how we got
         | to where we are now.
         | 
         | One of my professors wrote the canonical biography of Boole. I
         | read it, and learned as much about Boole as I did about Des
         | MacHale.
         | 
         | In a roundabout way what I'm trying to say is learn the
         | mathematics and the mathematician, you won't be disappointed.
        
       | 082349872349872 wrote:
       | Great shout! Does anyone know of a similar treatment of
       | Zhegalkin/Reed-Muller calculational logic?
        
       | jbverschoor wrote:
       | Imagine all programmers using your short name as a type.
        
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