Overview
- is a richly detailed summary of Boole's life, career and accomplishments.", "Historians of logic will be indebted to them for making Boole's Nachlass readily available for study." -Theodore Hailperin
- The edition does not only end an unbearable state in the history of logic, but it gives also an excellent scholarly example of mastering and presenting manuscript sources." - V. Peckhaus
Part of the book series: Science Networks. Historical Studies (SNHS, volume 20)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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The Nature of Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics
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The Philosophical Interpretation of a Theory of Logic
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“The Philosophy of Logic” - A Sequel to “The Laws of Thought”
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Miscellaneous Matters, Letters and Fragments
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: George Boole
Book Subtitle: Selected Manuscripts on Logic and its Philosophy
Editors: Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Gérard Bornet
Series Title: Science Networks. Historical Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8859-2
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-5456-5Published: 01 April 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9805-8Published: 29 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8859-2Published: 07 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1421-6329
Series E-ISSN: 2296-6080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXV, 236
Topics: Mathematics, general