George Boole & Moon Crater Boole & Asteroid 17734 - Lincoln, UK
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N 53° 13.590 W 000° 32.357
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This statue is dedicated to the Lincoln Born mathematician George Boole who invented binary logic. He has a moon crater and an asteroid named after him.
Waymark Code: WM18EY8
Location: East Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 07/21/2023
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The statue is located in the grounds outside Lincoln Railway Station and was sculpted by Antony Dufort.
He is depicted holding a logic book behind his back and standing in front of a blackboard and is teaching logic to two children.
On the reverse of the blackboard is a description of George Boole's life and his work on logic.
GEORGE BOOLE FRS
1815- 1864
GRANDFATHER OF
THE DIGITAL AGE
GEORGE BOOLE WAS BORN IN SILVER STREET
LINCOLN,THE SON OF A COBBLER. HE NEVER STUDIED
AT UNIVERSITY BUT BECAME A TEACHER IN 1831
AT THE AGE OF 16. IN 1834, AGED 19, HE OPENED
HIS FIRST SCHOOL TO HELP SUPPORT HIS FAMILY.
WITH LOCAL MENTORS, BOOLE TAUGHT HIMSELF
MATHEMATICS TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND IN 1844
WAS AWARDED THE GOLD MEDAL OF THE ROYAL
SOCIETY. IN 1849 HE WAS APPOINTED PROFESSOR OF
MATHEMATICS AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE. CORK IRELAND.
IN LINCOLN IN 1847 HE PUBLISHED 'MATHEMATICAL
ANALYSIS OF LOGIC' FOLLOWED IN 1854 BY HIS
MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL TREATISE
THE LAWS OF THOUGHT WHICH DESCRIBED HIS
PRACTICAL CONCEPTS FOR AN ALGEBRA OF LOGIC.
IN 1937. THE ENGINEER CLAUDE SHANNON BUILT
ELECTRONIC LOGIC GATES WITH RELAYS WHICH
COULD PROCESS BOOLE'S LOGIC USING VALVES AND
THEN TRANSISTORS, BOOLEAN LOGIC BECAME THE
PROCESSORS. MEMORY & PROGRAMMING METHOD
NOW USED LN EVERY MOBILE PHONE, COMPUTER
AND DIGITAL DEVICE.THESE ARE THEIR SYMBOLS
AND OR NOT 0 1
THERE ARE MILLIONS OF LOGIC GATES INSIDE
EVERY PROCESSOR.THEY COMPARE THE BINARY DIGITS
0 AND 1 MILLIONS OF TIMES EACH SECOND TO
POWER EVERY PIECE OF MAGIC WE SEE ON THE
SCREEN AND EVERY INTERNET SEARCH OR WEBSITE
The blackboard displays an explanation of Boolean logic written in handwriting script in chalk.
The symbols of an Alegbra
of Logic must follow the
special law
X squared = X
Therefore considered as Algebraic
the numbers 0 and 1 alone
follow this law therefore we
can conceive of an Alegbra
with symbols x, y, z etc
admitting only of the values
0 and 1 and to evaluate
logical propositions we
may choose a value 0 = False
and a value 1 = True
On the side edge of the blackboard is the following
COMMISSIONED BY
THE
HESLAM TRUST
FOR THE CITIZENS
OF LINCOLN 2020
On the base of the statue is the following
1815 GEORGE BOOLE 1864
Boole is a lunar impact crater that lies along the northwestern limb of the Moon, to the northwest of the crater Gerard. At this location it is viewed nearly from the side, and is very oblong in shape due to foreshortening. The crater formation is nearly circular, however, with a wide inner wall that has been worn and rounded due to subsequent impacts. It is named after George Boole.
To the north of Boole is the crater Cremona, and to the southwest are Paneth and Smoluchowski. The eroded and somewhat distorted satellite crater Boole E is attached to the southern rim, forming a saddle-shaped valley between the two formations. The interior floor of Boole is relatively flat, and marked only by tiny craterlets. There is a small craterlet on the floor next to the southwest rim, and a tiny crater along the western inner wall.
The surface along the western face of Boole is pock-marked by a multitude of small craterlets that run in a northerly direction towards Brianchon. A sequence of these impacts forms a short catena, or crater chain, near the western rim of Boole.
Asteroid Boole 17734 was discovered in 1997 by Paul G. Comba, an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.
After retirement in 1991, Comba moved to Prescott, Arizona, where he built the Prescott Observatory (obs. code: 684) There he specialized in discovering asteroids and has been recognized for the discovery of 644 numbered objects as of September 2013.