George Boole in a “Treatise on Differential Equations”, 1859, pp.485 quoted in: The Mathematical Monthly, Volume 2,1860 P.70-71
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I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in certain order, or that that order, has been to great extent necessary – being determined by steps of logical deduction, or by the successive introduction of new ideas and conceptions, when the time for the evolution had arrived.

— George Boole on Mathematical analysis

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George Boole

About George Boole

George Boole (2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was an English mathematician, logician and philosopher. As the inventor of Boolean logic, which is the basis of modern digital computer logic, he is regarded in hindsight as one of the founders of the field of computer science.