This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Isaac Newton, Wikipedia tells us, “is widely ...

Google Search is known for its Doodles, which the company implements to celebrate significant events in human history or the great men and women that made significant contributions to further our ...

Monday’s Google Doodle honors what would have been the 200th birthday of famed mathematician George Boole, whose research played a significant role in the 20th century’s digital revolution. Boole work ...

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It’s almost time to celebrate George Boole’s 200th birthday. Or maybe we should call it Birthday No. 11001000. You might have a hard time converting that binary number to decimal in your head. But it ...

A tribute to the nineteenth-century polymath whose algebra lets you search the Internet. IF George Boole had lived, then he would have celebrated his 200th birthday this week. NOT that it makes any ...

A close reader from Cork, George Harding, writes to point out my recent two-column series A History of Ireland in Descriptions of Rain included “only one actual death” from precipitation. This, he ...

Narrated by Oscar-winning actor Jeremy Irons, The Genius of George Boole assembles academics and industry leaders from across the globe to explore the life and importance of one of the world’s ...