Stanley N. Burris

E-mail: snburris@math.uwaterloo.ca

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Preliminary drafts on the contributions of some of the great logicians. Your comments are welcome!

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From Richard Whately to William Stanley Jevons

This set of notes is rather detailed, and devoted to the period surrounding the work of Boole and De Morgan. The logicians discussed are: Whately, De Morgan, Boole and Jevons.

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From Richard Dedekind to Gerhard Gentzen

This collects together some short notes that were compiled as supplementary reading on the web page for my book, Logic for Mathematics and Computer Science

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[ PDF - 500K ]

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My other Articles on Boole

1. My Book Review of A Boole Anthology
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2. The Laws of Boole's Thought.
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3. A Fragment of Boole's Algebraic Logic Suitable for Traditional Syllogistic Logic.
   [ PS ] [ DVI ] [ PDF ]