An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854): His most influential work, where he explored the fundamental laws of human reasoning. The Law of
: Born into a modest family in Lincoln, England, Boole received little formal schooling and largely taught himself advanced mathematics and foreign languages like French, German, and Italian.
: He spent years running his own schools before being appointed the first Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College in Cork, Ireland, in 1849—despite never having attended university himself.
: He defined the basic operations that allow us to combine or exclude concepts: AND (multiplication), OR (addition), and NOT (subtraction). Modern Legacy
: Today, "Booleans" are a fundamental data type in virtually every programming language, and Boolean logic powers everything from database searches to the decision-making processes of smartphones and laptops. George Boole: A 200-Year View - Stephen Wolfram Writings
The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847): His first monograph, which introduced the idea of representing logic through algebra.