George Boole was honored Monday by Google Doodle with 200 years of his birth. The English mathematician was regarded as the great great grandfather of the famous search engine and made history by inventing the Boolean algebra.
Born in the English town of Lincoln Nice November 2, 1815, Boole was consider one of the parents computer science and his great love for mathematics was transferred over the years to his son, who also tame the numbers with amazing ease, at age 15 spoke English, French, German, Italian and Latin.
As reported in La Voz de Galicia, this professor of the Queen-College Cork (Ireland) created the first system of mathematical logic known as algebra of logic. According to an article published on the BBC Technology, “he invented over 150 years ago how to search Google.” And it is that all search engines are based on principles of logic devised by the mathematician ahead of his time. George Boole died in December 1864 because of a fever without the foggiest idea of what was Google, yet their contributions, but in life were not so recognized, were decisive for the development of this technology giant. His algebra system is essential for modern programming.
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