Abstracts Archive

Logic became a mathematical science in the decades around 1900; that same period saw a wild proliferation of systems for representing the newly mathematical logic on paper. The fertile period for notational invention that began with English mathematician George Boole’s algebraic methods in the mid...

Abstract: Addressing the perennial question “under what conditions can real objects, attributes or relations be represented by numbers?” Hermann von Helmholtz gave an answer in his 1887 lecture “Zählen und Messen” which diverged from the predominant Kantian understanding of quantity and...

English mathematician George Boole (1815–1864) is considered a principal inventor of mathematical logic and a major predecessor of computer science. Historians typically emphasize his recasting Aristotelian logic in algebraic notation and applying the computational techniques of mathematical...