Author: George Boole
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: thought, laws, investigation
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 1958-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0486600289
ISBN-13: 9780486600284

Classic in symbolic logic, showing that classical logic can be treated algebraically. Timeless introduction.

Author: Theodore Hailperin
Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
Keywords: logic, probability, theory, studies, mathematics, algebra, foundations, standpoint, critical, exposition, boole, contemporary
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1986-12
List price: $277.00
ISBN-10: 0444879528
ISBN-13: 9780444879523

Since the publication of the first edition in 1976, there has been a notable increase of interest in the development of logic. This is evidenced by the several conferences on the history of logic, by a journal devoted to the subject, and by an accumulation of new results. This increased activity and the new results - the chief one being that Boole’s work in probability is best viewed as a probability logic - were influential circumstances conducive to a new edition. Chapter 1, presenting Boole’s ideas on a mathematical treatment of logic, from their emergence in his early 1847 work