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Stanley Burris - Reconstructing Boole's discovery of an algebra of logic
| STANLEY BURRIS, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario |
| Reconstructing Boole's discovery of an algebra of logic |
Boole developed an algebra of logic that certainly was not Boolean algebra or Boolean rings. His two texts give little indication of how he arrived at his system. In this talk an attempt is made to provide a framework that makes the development of Boole's ideas appear to be natural.
