Google Doodle: Google is celebrating the 200th birth anniversary of world famous mathematician George Boole by dedicating its today’s doodle.
The animated Doodle is a demonstration of the ‘logic gates’ used in computing that are derived from Boolean functions. Doodle highlights the various Boolean operators – AND, OR, NOT, and XOR. These Boolean operators find application in search, also known as Boolean search. For example if you want to search for the Google Nexus, but want to see results for the mentions with both words together, you could search for Google AND Nexus.
George Boole is known as the “father of the information age” because of his contributions to modern computer science through his invention of Boolean algebra. His legacy of Boolean algebra laid the foundations of digital age.
Georgeboole.com, a University of College Cork website that is dedicated to him, says the Englishman “invented a new kind of mathematics by classifying thought and codifying it using algebraic language.”
Many of us his works were primarily in the fields of differential equations, probability and algebraic logic.
