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Copyright c○ by Stochastikon GmbH (http://encyclopedia.stochastikon.com) 4 • I. Grattan-Guiness, “The correspondence between George Boole and Stanley Jevons, 1863-1864”, History and Philosophy of Logic 12 (1991) pp. 15-35. • I. Grattan-Guiness, “Psychology in the foundations of logic and mathematics: the cases of Boole, Cantor and Brouwer”, History and Philosophy of Logic 3 (1982) pp. 33-53. • I. Grattan-Guiness, “’A new type of question’: on the prehistory of linear and non-linear programming, 1770-1940”, in: E. Knobloch, D. Rowe (eds.), History of modern mathematics, vol. 3 (New York 1994). • I. Grattan-Guiness, The search for mathematical roots, 1870-1940. Logics, set theories and the foundations of mathematics from Cantor through Russel to Gödel (Princeton 2000). • I. Grattan-Guiness, “George Boole, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought in which are founded the Mathematical Theory of Logic and Probabilities (1854)”, in: I. Grattan-Guiness (ed.), Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics (Amsterdam, Boston 2005) pp. 470-479. • F.E. Hackett, “The method of George Boole”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section A 57 (1955) pp. 79-87. • Theodore Hailperin, Boole’s logic and probability: a critical exposition from the standpoint of contemporary algebra, logic, and probability theory (Amsterdam 1976). • Theodore Hailperin, “Boole’s abandoned propositional logic”, History and Philosophy of Logic 5 (1984) pp. 39-48. • R. Harley, George Boole: his life and work (Dublin 1985). • Peter Heath, Eugene Seneta, “George Boole”, in: C.C. Heyde, E. Seneta (eds.), Statisticians of the Centuries (New York 2001) pp. 167-170. • W. Kneale, “Boole and the revival of logic”, Mind 57 (1948) pp. 149-175. • D. MacHale, George Boole - his life and work (Dublin 1985). • D.D. Merrill, Augustus De Morgan and the logic of relations (Dordrecht 1990). • Denis Miéville, George Boole et l’algèbre de la logique (Neuchâtel 1994). • Modestino Nuzzetti, Logic e linguaggio nella filosofia di George Boole (Napoli 1987). • M. Pantecki, “Relationships between algebra, differential equations and logic in England: 1800-1860”, Ph.D., C.N.A.A. (London 1992). • Daniel Parrochia, Qu’est-ce que penser/calculer? (Paris 1992). • V. Peckhaus, Logic, Mathesis universalis und allgemeine Wissenschaft. Leibniz und die Wiederentdeckung der formalen Logik im 19. Jahrhundert (Berlin 1997). • Alessio Plebe, Il linguaggio come calcolo: dalla logica di Boole alle reti neuronali (Roma 2004). • Shahid Rahman, Hugh MacColls Begriff der hypothetischen Aussage und
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