George Boole is a luminary of mathematics and logic whose work shows the practicality of these fields. Using his basic definitions of AND, OR, and NOT, individuals can wade through piles of irrelevant data in minutes to find the one piece of information they need. To learn more about Boole, read the brief essay "George Boole" at www.advbool.com/Misc/boole.html. At the end of the essay, you will find a short reading list that points to sources of additional material on George Boole's life. For a longer biographical sketch and to see a portrait of Boole, you might visit the George Boole site at www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/
Mathematicians/Boole.html. At "The Calculus of Logic," www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Boole/
CalcLogic/CalcLogic.html, you can read an essay that Boole wrote to describe his "application of a new and peculiar form of Mathematics to the expression of the operations of the mind in reasoning." Computer Logic, at www.ort.org/edu/itweb/itcourse.htm hosted by ORTnet, presents a tutorial on basic Boolean logic as it is implemented in computers.