I'm sorry to say but AFAIK, Boole was English. He wrote a piece called "An Investigation in the Laws of Thought" (1854) which dealt with classes. Later Shannon published a work in which he proved that Boole's logic could be used with relays and switches. Just to be on the safe site...... On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Michael Olds wrote: > This search engine uses a symbolic logic system called Boolean Logic, named > after George Boole, the French mathemetician who invented it. It uses a > simple parser that knows how to deal with "not", "and", "or" and > parenthesis. The result of the parser is one set of matches. --jesse -------------------------------------------------------------------- J. op den Brouw Johanna Westerdijkplein 75 Haagse Hogeschool 2521 EN DEN HAAG Faculty of Engeneering Netherlands Electrical Engeneering +31 70 4458936 -------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------- Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
