George Boole
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George Boole was an English mathematician and philosopher often credited with revolutionizing logic by transforming it from a philosophical study of language into a mathematical system of algebraic eq
House and School at 3 Pottergate
Plaque from the house
Greyfriars, Lincoln, which housed the Mechanic's Institute
The house at 5 Grenville Place in Cork, in which Boole lived between 1849 and 1855, and where he wrote The Laws of Thought (picture taken during renovation)
Claude Shannon
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Claude Elwood Shannon was an American polymath who was a mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer, and inventor known as the "father of information theory", and the man wh
George Boole
…expanded upon by various scholars, such as Charles Sanders Peirce and William Stanley Jevons. Boole's ideas later gained practical applications when Claude Shannon and Victor Shestakov employed Boolean algebra to optimize the design of electromechanical relay systems, leading to the development of modern electronic…
Shannon c. 1950s
Theseus Maze in MIT Museum
The Minivac 601, a digital computer trainer designed by Shannon
Statue of Claude Shannon at AT&T Shannon Labs