Google honors the English mathematician, philosopher and logician "George Boole" with a mathimatical doodle. Seems to be hard to understand, but the video show: it's quite easy - and logical.
Biography: George Boole was born on 2 November 1815. He was an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought. He worked as a schoolmaster in England and from 1849 until his death as professor of mathematics at Queen's University, Cork, Ireland. He died 1864.
More about the doodle (incl. single-Screenshots of each condition:
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http://www.tagseoblog.de/lo...... (german)
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http://www.tagseoblog.com/t......
Update: On April 30th 2016 google honors Claude Shannon who developed Boole ideas to a "information theory" See:
https://www.youtube.com/wat......
More about George Boole (Biography, Life and Works) on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wi......
or on "his" homepage:
http://georgeboole.com/George Boole Quotes
"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."
George Boole
"No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful."
George Boole
"Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities."
George Boole
"To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind."
George Boole
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Music: "Mister Explosion" by Kevin MacLeod
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