boole

Babbage conceptually invented a universal computer a couple of decades before Boole published his major opus.

The thread with Boole was picked up as a long tie-in to get to his daughter.

Instead he zoomed off into the Boole family and the Voynich Manuscript for no apparent reason.

The relevant way of approaching problems like these tends to use a lot less Boole and a lot more Bayes.

And just when you think the article is going somewhere it ends with a strange detour into the Boole family which doesn't seem to have much to do with the rest.

It's odd to me that you characterize Boole as a philosopher--I've always heard of him as a mathematician.

The nugget buried at the end is very interesting - Boole (of Boolean Logic) was related to Voynich who found what is perhaps one of the most cryptic documents of all time.

In particular, his connection between Boole (and Boolean Algebra) and recommendation systems seems weak.

TIL Hinton's great great grandfather is George Boole (inventor of Boolean logic).

Interesting, but the inaccurate obsession with Boole needs to go.

George Boole died without every knowing any of this.

Now, I don't know the answer to this one, but maybe someone can help: Was George Boole considered an important philosopher in 1939?

Claude Shannon published his famous master's thesis applying Boolean logic to electric circuits in 1938 in " Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers." - so again, I suppose Borges could have known about it through that, but it seems unlikely, So, of all the philosophers he could have chosen, why George Boole?

She was the daughter of the famous Boole, and made big contributions to higher dimensional mathematics, especially 4D, e.g.

George Boole, Charles Babbage, John von Neumann, Grace Hopper - To name a few great contributors.

Who would have guessed, in 1847, that Boole's philosophical papers on logic, would form the foundations of computing a hundred years later?