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The Continued Exercise of Reason : Public Addresses by George Boole.

By: Dooley, Brendan [author.].
Contributor(s): IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: MIT Press Ser: Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2018Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2018]Description: 1 PDF (249 pages).Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262345576.Subject(s): Boole, George, 1815-1864 | Boole, George, 1815-1864 | Logic, Symbolic and mathematical | Logic, Symbolic and mathematicalGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 511.3 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Intro; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 ON THE GENIUS AND DISCOVERIES OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON; 2 ON THE CHARACTER AND ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT MYTHOLOGIES; 3 ON THE QUESTION: ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED?; 4 A PLEA FOR FREEDOM; 5 THE RIGHT USE OF LEISURE; 6 ON EDUCATION; 7 THE CLAIMS OF SCIENCE; 8 THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF INTELLECTUAL CULTURE; NOTES; INDEX.
Summary: Lectures, many never before published, that offer insights into the early thinking of the mathematician and polymath George Boole.
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Intro; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1 ON THE GENIUS AND DISCOVERIES OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON; 2 ON THE CHARACTER AND ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT MYTHOLOGIES; 3 ON THE QUESTION: ARE THE PLANETS INHABITED?; 4 A PLEA FOR FREEDOM; 5 THE RIGHT USE OF LEISURE; 6 ON EDUCATION; 7 THE CLAIMS OF SCIENCE; 8 THE SOCIAL ASPECT OF INTELLECTUAL CULTURE; NOTES; INDEX.

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Lectures, many never before published, that offer insights into the early thinking of the mathematician and polymath George Boole.

Also available in print.

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