The Mathematical Analysis of Logic: Being an Essay Towards a Calculus of Deductive Reasoning - Brossura

Boole, George

 
9781108001014: The Mathematical Analysis of Logic: Being an Essay Towards a Calculus of Deductive Reasoning

Sinossi

In The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, mathematician George Boole persuasively argues that logic should be aligned with mathematics, not philosophy.

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In 1847, mathematician George Boole published a pamphlet, The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, which launched him into history as one of the nineteenth century's most innovative thinkers. This work was the first to construct a mathematics of logic and the human intellect, establishing the close relationship between mathematics and philosophy.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. First principles; 3. Of expression and interpretation; 4. Of the conversion of propositions; 5. Of syllogisms; 6. Of hypotheticals; 7. Properties of elective functions; 8. Of the solution of elective equations; 9. Postscript.

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