The book is in good condition with some light spotting and an errata leaf at the end. It is in its original black bind stamped cloth,which has suffered slightly from damp. Often described as the father of the internet Boole in this work expounds the theory which invented the first practical system of logic in algebraic form. This enabled more advances to be made in the science of logic in the latter decades of the 19th century than in the previous twenty two centuries combined. His work led to the creation of set theory and probability theory in mathematics, to the philosophical work of Peirce, Russell, Whitehead and Wittgenstein and to computer technology via the master’s thesis of C.E. Shannon (1937). Shannon recognised that the true/false values in Boole’s algebra were analogous to the open and closed states of electric circuits. The invention of the binary digit or bit made possible the development of the digital computer.
UPDATE: IT SOLD FOR A HAMMER PRICE OF 11,000. IT WAS PURCHASED BY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK.
The first edition of George Boole’s theory.
The inscription by George Boole to Mrs. Hill.
