The Almanac

November 2

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

  1. 1815

    George Boole, who gave computers their logic, is born

    George Boole was born in Lincoln, England, a largely self-taught mathematician who turned logic into algebra. His system of true and false values, once a philosophical curiosity, became the language every digital computer now thinks in.

    Source: Wikipedia

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