Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. - George Boole
It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.
- George Boole
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order,… - George Boole
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order,…
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly … - George Boole
I am fully assured, that no general method for the solution of questions in the theory of probabilities can be established which does not explicitly …
It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an… - George Boole
It follows that the word probability, in its mathematical acceptance, has reference to the state of our knowledge of the circumstances under which an…
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event wou… - George Boole
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event wou…
I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I … - George Boole
I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I …
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ou… - George Boole
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ou…
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until … - George Boole
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until …
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole
That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted.
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