Breaking News: Google celebrates George Boole's 200th Birthday

Some of the facts of George Boole:

• George Boole was born in 2 November 1815. George Boole was an mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician.
• He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought.
• According to GeorgeBoole.com, a University College Cork website dedicated to him, "his legacy surrounds us everywhere, in the computers, information storage and retrieval, electronic circuits and controls that support life, learning and communications in the 21st century
• "His pivotal advances in mathematics, logic and probability provided the essential groundwork for modern mathematics, microelectronic engineering and computer science." 
• Born 200 years ago on November 2, his algebraic approach to logic, in which all values are reduced to either "true" or "false", is still used today.
• He also devised a type of linguistic algebra, now known as Boolean algebra, the three most basic operations of which are "and", "or" and "not".   
• In layman's terms his theory of logic is premised on predicting what happens for each of these binary states.