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George Boole (1815–1864) was an English mathematician and logician who systematized logic using symbolic algebra, laying the theoretical foundations for modern information technology and digital computers. After winning the gold medal from the Royal Society in 1844, he was appointed in 1849 as the first mathematics professor at Queen’s College, Cork. In his seminal works The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and The Laws of Thought (1854), he systematized logic using algebraic methods and es