George Boole - George Boole Statue - Lincoln, UK - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

This bronze statue is located in the grounds outside Lincoln Railway Station and was sculpted by Antony Dufort. He is depicted holding a logic book in his left hand behind his back and standing in front of a blackboard and is teaching logic to two children. All three figures are life size and are dressed in clothing from the Victorian era. Boole in particular has a frock coat over a suit and a bow tie around his neck. The two children have work books in their hands and making notes as Boole is speaking with chalk in his right hand.

His treatise on logic underpins the workings of computers and electronic devices such as mobile phones.

The blackboard that forms part of the sculpture has his treatise displayed in a handwritten script, as though Boole has written it himself.

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 rear of the blackboard there is also an inscription with details of George Boole and his life.

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

Address: Foreccourt of Lincoln Railway Station 19 St Mary's St, Lincoln Lincolnshire LN5 7EW Website: Not listed

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