Google published a Doodle celebrating George Boole’s achievements and the impact of his work after death in celebration of what would have been the mathematician’s 200th birthday.
The doodle explains the simplicity and the complexity of the universe, drawn by Leon Hong, and the text attached mentions Boole’s great work despite barely having finished primary school. George Boole was a polyglot and mathematic genius by age fourteen, founded a school by nineteen, and by 34, he was appointed as First Professor of Mathematics at the University College Cork.
He then engineered the “Boolean” system, detailed in An Investigation of the Laws of Thought in 1854, which became the building blocks for computer science. His work is what created the basis of all code, and laid the rock foundation of the entire Information Age. Without George Boole, the company would probably not even exist.
On behalf of the internet, happy 200th birthday to George Boole!
