I would like to start off by saying that I, along with the rest of the family, am honored. My uncle would be so proud right now, if he was here.

            Well okay. My uncle- George Boole was born in 1815 and passed in 1864. He’s being honored today by the Dead Mathematician Society for his extensive studies, discoveries, and teachings of mathematics.

            Boole was born in
Lincoln, England- an industrial town. He got his mathematical intelligence and love from his father. He was taught basic Latin by a family friend and quickly caught on. He began translating Latin poetry at age twelve. Shortly there after he was fluent in German, Italian, and French. At the age of sixteen he became a teacher’s assistant, and at twenty he opened his own school. It’s pretty interesting to learn that this incredible man who accomplished so much is part of my blood line.

            Okay moving along- he studied so many things. Isaac-Newton’s principals and works of the 18^th and 19^th century along with some French mathematicians Pierre-Simon Lapalace and Joseph-Louis Lagrange are a few works and people he studied.

            At the age of twenty four he published his 1^st paper- named ‘Researches on the Theory of Analytical Transformations’- which was published in The Cambridge Mathematical Journal. It was then that Boole began to push the limits of mathematics.

            By 1844 Boole concentrated on the uses of combined algebra and calculus to process infinitely small and large figures. That year he also received a Royal Society medal for analytic contributions. ‘The Mathematical Analysis of Logic’ was published in 1847. This analysis expanded on Gottfried Leibniz’s’ earlier Logic and math, but argued that logic was principally a discipline of mathematics, rather than philosophy. This paper won him the admiration of distinguished logician Augustus de Morgan and a place on the faculty of Ireland’sQueen
College. It was there that he came up with linguistic algebra and three most basic operations AND, OR and NOT which formed the basis of his premises.

            More works Boole accomplished are ‘Treatise on Differential Equations’-1859.

And The ‘Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences’-1860.

            My long lost uncle Boole died at the age of 49. Ironically the cause of his death was teaching in cold, wet clothing from walking two miles in the rain to get to class. So I guess when your grandfather tells you as a kid “I used to walk two miles to school”… or to work….. Now you know it’s a true tale of hardship and determination, in which my uncle George Boole actually did and passed because of. Thank you all for the honor to get to speak of this wonderful man it’s been such a pleasure and something I know I surely will never forget.

Assignment 1

1a. death and penalty=7128…death penalty=6587 1b. a lot of them apprear in the title, a few were in the text and the words were right next to each other 1c. some databases give you the option of serching the exact phrase, and also putting quotations around it.

2.

1. d /\ p = 1-”death and penalty”
2. d \/ p= 1512090-death or penalty
3. s  =6587 -death penalty
4. s /\ n = 639- death penalty and new york state
5. s  /\ ~ n=
6. s \/ c = 7262-death penalty and capital punishment
7. s /\ c = 734- death penalty and capital punishment

3. Use parenthesis to get exact phrases.

the and gives you both at the same time

the or gives you either of the words or both words in the same page

4. A

1. d /\ p =15568- baseball and players
2. d \/ p=201480-baseball or players
3. s = 4667-baseball players
4. s /\ n=17- baseball players and steroid use
5. s  /\ ~ n=2-baseball players and no steroid use
6. s \/ c=9154-baseball players or drug abuse
7. s /\ c=5-baseball players and drug abuse

 4B 

1. d /\ p=1692-global and warming
2. d \/ p=22285-global or warming
3. s =166-global warming
4. s /\ n=0-global warming and green house effect (also) “global warming and green house effect”
5. s  /\ ~ n=1663-global warming and not green house effect
6. s \/ c=3261-global warming or air pollution
7. s /\ c=34-global warming and air pollution

Assignment 2

d=death penalty=

c=capital punishment

n=new york state

1. n /\ ( d \/ c ) = 702 “new york state” and (“death penalty” or”capital punishment”)
2. ( n /\ d ) \/ c = 1909 (“new york state” and “death penalty”) or “capital punishment”
3. n /\ d \/ c =702    “new york state” and “death penalty” or “capital punishment”
4. ( n /\ d) \/ ( n /\ c)=281  (“new york state” and “death penalty”) or (“new york state” and “capital punishment”)

2. the first one and the third one because it is the same sequence of and and or its just putting brackets and even the words are in the same order as you search.

3. a=c

b=

c=

d=

Frank Napolitano Assignment #4 (Info-Trac)

A) Define Variables

E will stand for Eating Disorders, G will stand for Girls, and W will stand for Women

B)  “E”

       E^( g^w)

       E^(g v w)

        “E” ~(g v w)

C)  Here are the Search Strings : First I will start with just “E”, then I will move on to searching “E” ^ (g ^ w) that will stand for Eating disorder and ( girls and women). Then my third step will be “E” ^ (g v w) and that will stand for eating disorders and (girls or women). And my last search will be “E” ~(g v w) and that will stand for  Eating Disorder and NOT (girls or women)

D)  Search Results

          E”- 4,905 results

       E^( g^w)- 68 results

       E^(g v w)- 1,513 results

        “E” ~(g v w) - 0 results

Thank you all for coming tonight. I am here to represent one of the greatest enlighteners of our time, my great uncle George Boole. He was born on the 2^nd of November of 1815. He was best known as the developer of Boolean algebra. He was born in
Lincoln, England. My uncle was great and was seen as a “self-taught mathematician” (http://www.answers.com/topic/george-boole) He established himself at a young age attending “a school in
Lincoln for children of tradesmen run by two Misses Clarke when he was less than two years old”. (http://www.gap system.org/~history/Biographies/Boole.html) At a young age my uncle had put himself through academics. It was not until his father’s friend Mr. Gibson showed him the door to perform in commercial studies and “he remained until he was seven years old.” Although Mr. Gibson showed him the door into commercial, his own father showed him “his early instructions into mathematics.” My uncle was taught to speak other languages such as Latin. My uncle’s teachings were possible through my grandfather’s help by having him “receive instruction in Latin from a local bookstore.” He maintained his interest in languages, began to study mathematics seriously, and gave up ideas which he had to enter the Church. The first advanced mathematics book he read was Lacroix’s Differential and integral calculus. My uncle was never the type to wait around for things to come to him. He felt that learning wasn’t’ for him and he wanted to teach therefore “In 1833 he moved to a new teaching position in Liverpool but he only remained there for six months before moving to Hall’s Academy in Waddington, four miles from Lincoln. In 1834 he opened his own school in
Lincoln although he was only 19 years old.” Having opened his own school was one of the greatest accomplishments because he established himself as an independent individual. He created his first mathematic paper that consisted of works that he studies such as the “works of Laplace and Lagrange.” Having taken notes he learned from what he studied.  “He began publishing regularly in the
Cambridge Mathematical Journal and his interests were influenced by Duncan Gregory as he began to study algebra.” My uncle got involved with many other enlighteners such as Augusta De Morgan around the year of 1842. The greatest acknowledgement toward my uncle was “in 1849 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Queen’s College in
Ireland.” (http://www.answers.com/topic/george-boole). I would like to thank many people that motivated him in his success. Some of those people would be his successors such as Augusta De Morgan to allow him to enlighten his ideas and follow through with his own. Thank you all for coming out and I thank you for inducting my uncle into the hall of fame.

Aklima Khondoker

Professor Glass

Logic 101

13^th December 2006

Dead Mathematicians Hall of Fame Awards Acceptance Speech

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you at the Dead Mathematicians Hall of fame for this great honor bestowed upon my deceased uncle. It gives me great pride to accept this accolade in honor of the great Mr. George Boole. From his birthplace in Lincolnshire, England in 1815, George was destined for greatness. Though at first sight it may not have seemed that way. After all, his family wasn’t particularly entitled or wealthy. In fact, though his father spent many of his days thinking scientifically and mathematically, his occupation was one of a shoe maker. However Father John Boole gave his son all of his knowledge of math, and soon George grew to love it too. In his early years, George’s first love was actually language. His father sent him to learn Latin, German and French. The Boole family went through financial hardship when George was 16, so George began working as an assistant teacher. He actually began learning mathematics on his own, outside of his father’s teachings. His very first math book was Lacroix’s Differential and integral calculus. Though I’m sure he taught himself very well, he soon realized that it would be best to receive lessons outside of his father and on his own. He decided to relocate to Liverpool where he acquired a teaching position that allowed him to study mathematics in depth with other professors. The ambition of this teenage man had no end! At the age of 19 he moved to Lincoln and opened his own school, in addition the primary operator of Hall’s Academy (Robert Hall) in Waddington, asked him to take over the school in his passing. Which he also did. As years passed, He began publishing regularly in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal with his main focus on algebra. He corresponded with another Hall of Famer by the name of De Morgan. In 1842 George wrote a paper On a general method of analysis– applying algebraic methods to the solution of differential equations; which he sent to De Morgan for comments. Speaking of fame, George’s work began to receive recognition in 1844 when he received the Royal Society’s Royal medal for his work in the Transactions of the Royal Society. In 1854 he published An investigation into the Laws of Thought, on Which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. Quite possibly what he is most famous for. His approach was using logic with simple algebra, integrating logic into mathematics. By showing correlations between logical forms and algebraic symbols he bridged a gap that allowed this form of mathematics to expand and increase in plasticity. Boolean Algebra is used today for various computer applications, search engines and has many other technical applications. Information from kerryr.net confirms what we already know; Today, all our computers use Boole’s logic system – using microchips that contain thousands of tiny electronic switches arranged into logical ‘gates’ that produce predictable and reliable conclusions. The basic logic gates are AND, OR and NOT. It is these gates, used in different combinations, that allow the computer to execute its operations using binary language. Each gate assesses information (consisting of high or low voltages) in accordance with predetermined rules, and produces a single high or low voltage logical conclusion. He created a system that is widely used and taught today. It is math for the ages and hasn’t slowed his recognition since. The voltage itself represents the binary yes-no, true-false, one-zero concept. Boole also worked on differential equations, the influential Treatise on Differential Equations appeared in 1859, the calculus of finite differences, Treatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences (1860), and general methods in probability. As well as both on logical and mathematical topics, found in the Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs published by the Royal Society, and in the supplementary volume on Differential Equations. Add the Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, and the third and fourth series of the Philosophical Magazine to his credits and many many more. Once again ladies and gentlemen, I am truly thankful to receive this message; my first accolade in his honor, which I am sure will not be his last.

Works Cited:

Kerry Redshaw. Pioneers: George Boole. © Copyright 1996. 13^th December 2006. KerryR. www.kerryr.net/index.htm

Wikipedia contributors. George Boole, 9^th December 2006. Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia ©. 13^th December 2006. www.wikipedia.com

Eileen Harrison. George Boole: Mathematician and Philosopher. 1993. Roger Parson’s Lincolnshire World. 13^th December 2006. http://homepages.enterprise.net/rogerp/george/boole.html

Research:

Web Search Results for “Boole”All Search Engines 1 – 20 of 67 George Boole (1815 – 1864)The original Working Class Boy Made Good, Boole was born in the wrong time, in the wrong place, and definitely in the wrong class – he didn’t have a hope of …www.kerryr.net/pioneers/boole.htm [Found on Google, MSN Search, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com]

George Boole – Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaGeorge Boole’s father was a tradesman of limited means, but of studious … A long list of Boole’s memoirs and detached papers, both on logical and …en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole [Found on Google, MSN Search, Ask.com]

Roger p@rsons_world of George BooleBeekeeping, Comets, and Famous Lincolnshire scientists, explorers, mathematicians and philosophers.homepages.enterprise.net/rogerp/george/boole.html [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, Ask.com]

1) A)  511  B)  530  C)  530  D)  959

2) In our database the results for B and C came out the same because the parenthesis are assumed by their boolean operators, so weather they are placed, you get the same result

3) QA-VB    QB-VC  QC-VE  QD-VD

            I am honored to be here today on behalf of my great uncle George Boole, who is being inducted into the “Dead Mathematicians Hall of Fame.”  Although, my uncle George died at the early age of 49, he had accomplished and helped others to accomplish a great many things that have impacted the world of math and technology forever. 

            Of his many achievements, he is best known for his “invention of Boolean algebra, which is the foundation of all modern computer arithmetic.”  (Encyclopedia of World Biography)  My uncle is regarded in retrospect “as one of the founders of the field of computer science,” even though computers did not exist in his day.   (OpposingViewpoints Resource Center)  “Many of his works influenced and were refined by William Stanley Jevons, Augustus De Morgan, Charles Peirce, and William Ernest Johnson.”  (Wickipedia)  Most people thought of his work as being relatively obscure except among logicians, and seemed to have no practical use.  However, about seventy years after my uncle’s death, Claude Shannon discovered his Boolean algebra theory while taking a philosophy class at the University of Michigan.  Having found this theory extremely fascinating, “Shannon went on to write a master’s thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which he showed how Boolean algebra could optimize the design of systems of electromechanical relays then used in telephone routing switches.” (Wickipedia)  “Shannon also proved that circuits with relays could solve Boolean algebra problems. Employing the properties of electrical switches to do logic is the basic concept that underlies all modern electronic digital computers.” (Wickipedia) Hence, Boolean algebra became the foundation of practical digital circuit design. Thus, my uncle George along with Shannon provided the theoretical grounding for the Digital Age. 

             The personal character of my uncle inspired all his friends with deep esteem.  He was truly a modest man who dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth.  “He neither sought nor received the ordinary rewards to which his discoveries would entitle him.”  (OpposingViewpoints
Resource Center)  For these reasons, I am delighted and proud to partake in this distinguished ceremony.  My great uncle is well deserving of this gesture of notoriety and I extend my deepest appreciation to all of those who contributed to helping him gain this prestigious award of recognition.

Works Cited

“George Boole.”  Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2^nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998

            http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC

“George Boole.”  OpposingViewpoints Resource Center, March 27, 2004   

           http://galenet.galegroup.com/itw/OVRC

“George Boole.”-Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

             http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_boole

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I’m very sorry to all that my Uncle DeMorgan could not make it. I’m sure he would be very excited to be here right now in front of all you nice people. I will talk on behalf of him during this time to explain to you how much of a good man he was. My uncle was such a hardworking, loving and loyal man. He was born on June 27, 1806 in India. He was an Indian-born British mathematician (Wikipedia. “Augustus De Morgan.”18 October 2006. 5 December 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan>). When DeMorgan was ten years old his father past away. Everyone noticed his will into math when he was just fourteen years old. His mother noticed all the times he done math and used rulers and compasses. She knew DeMorgan will eventually have a career in math. But his mother wanted DeMorgan to work as a clergyman because she worked for the Church of England. In 1823 when my uncle was sixteen years old he attended Trinity College in Cambridge, where he studied with George Peacock and William Whewell. They became really good friends throughout the years. From Mr. Whewell my uncle had got a more interest to algebra, and then to logic and those are the two subjects that he devoted his life on. My uncle received his secondary education from Mr. Parsons a professor of Oriel College Oxford, who appreciated classics much rather than mathematics. For fun my uncle loved to play the flute. My uncle loved to play the flute all the time for fun and he was very good at it. He was really into sports but he was into musicals for school. That’s what he did for fun. But also he loved the seaside and disliked the country. My uncles schooling and career was not open at his own university so he decided to go to the Bar and moved to London and he loved to read about laws and rules about mathematics. My uncle was introduced as a Professor of Mathematics at the age of 22 years old and at the London University. His introductory lecture “On the study of mathematics” is a discourse upon mental education of permanent value which has been recently reprinted in the United States. The London University is a new university and a lot of Professors had to leave but my uncle was hardworking and stayed there and become to everyone as a Prince of Mathematics. A great achievement that would came from my uncle was the law that young kids use today in math called DeMorgan law which obviously named after him and my uncle was the first to introduce it. The other achievement that I loved was the De Morgan crater on the Moon which is named after my uncle. He also made great advance by introducing quatification of the terms in other words like substituting two terms. My uncle made a lot of achievements which I’m and our whole family is very proud of. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_De_Morgan). On March 18, 1871 at the age of 65 years old a man who is loving, hardworking and the best uncle in the whole world died from nervous prostration after five years of retiring from University College. I would like to say Thank You to my uncle right now if he could hear me for helping me my whole life in math and real life problems, he was such a great uncle. I would like to say thank you to all of you voters and fans who voted the best mathematicians in my eyes into the Hall of Fame of Mathematics. I would

also say a thank you for all who has showed up to support my uncle to help get voted into the hall of fame and to all my family members thank you.

Danny Psomas 12/8/06

Math 101 Dr. Glass

EXTRA CREDIT DANNY PSOMAS

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