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“There was yet another disadvantage attaching to the whole of Newton’s physical inquiries, ... the want of an appropriate notation for expressing the conditions of a dynamical problem, and the general principles by which its solution must be obtained. By the labours of LaGrange, the motions of a disturbed planet are reduced with all their complication and variety to a purely mathematical question. It then ceases to be a physical problem; the disturbed and disturbing planet are alike vanished: the ideas of time and force are at an end; the very elements of the orbit have disappeared, or only exist as arbitrary characters in a mathematical formula.”

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George Boole
George Boole

George Boole was a renowned mathematician who made significant contributions to the fields of mathematical logic and Boolean algebra. Born on November 2, 1815, and passing away on December 8, 1864, his work had a profound impact on the development of computer science and electronic engineering. more

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