Boole

American  

[bool] / bul /

noun

1. George, 1815–64, English mathematician and logician.

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Boole British  

/ buːl /

noun

1. George . 1815–64, English mathematician. In Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854), he applied mathematical formulae to logic, creating Boolean algebra

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Boole Scientific  

/ bo̅o̅l /

1. British mathematician who wrote important works in various areas of mathematics. He developed a system of mathematical symbolism to express logical relations that is now known as Boolean algebra.

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“It’s a defensive cost, not even necessarily alpha,” said David Boole, managing director at options brokerage BayCrest, referring to an edge in trading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Sasha Boole: For more than 10 years, I was doing country and western folk music in Ukraine, trying to combine that with the Ukrainian soul and find new formulas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2024

A binary value is often referred to as a Boolean, named after a 19th-century guy named Charles Boole who invented a system of logic that only uses 1s and 0s.

From Slate ● Oct. 23, 2019

“The respective interpretation of the symbols 0 and 1 in the system of logic are Nothing and Universe,” wrote George Boole.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2015

In 1891 Mrs. Ella A. Boole, of West New Brighton, was made the superintendent, and has continued until the present.

From Two Decades A History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of New York by Frances W. Graham