The Life and Accomplishments of George Boole
George Boole entered the world on November second, 1815 in the city of Lincoln, England. He came from humble beginnings, as his father was a shoemaker. John Boole was most likely the one who ignited George’s love of science. John would create all sorts of things with George, such as cameras, kaleidoscopes, microscopes, telescopes, and sundials.
Academics were never a problem for George. He started school at before he was two and later taught himself French, German and Italian. His first published work was when he translated Ode to the Spring from Latin to Greek at the age of 14. According to University College Cork, “his father was so proud that he had it published” in the newspaper.
At 16 he already
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Claude’s parents didn’t provide much technological influence on him. His father was a judge and his mother was a principal of a high school. His interest in technology may have started from his grandfather who invented the washing machine and other farming machinery.
Shannon graduated from the University of Michigan in 1936 with a degree in mathematics and electrical engineering. He then went back to school for his masters at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1940. While there, he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and wrote a thesis titled A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits. This paper introduced the application of Boolean logic to the design of electrical circuits. This later became the foundation for computer development after World War II.
After college, Claude moved on to become a research mathematician at Bell Labs in 1941. While working at Bell Labs, he met his wife Betty whom he married in 1949 and went on to have three kids. In 1948, Claude published A Mathematical Theory of Communication in the Bell System Technical Journal. In this theory, Claude proposed that electronic information could be used as messages to communicate with others through transmitters and channels. The theory was based utilized Claude’s Information Theory which brought forth the idea to turn information into a different form to be transmitted electronically. This was a revolutionary idea for the time, sending information with binary had never been thought of