Beschreibung:

S. 597 - 653, Kl.-4°. Mod. Lwd. mit aufgeklebten Titelschild des OU.

Bemerkung:

Erste Ausgabe dieser Arbeit des George Boole, für die er mit der Keith Medal ausgezeichnet wurde. - "During 1855 and the following year Boole was working on a very significant work entitled On the Application of the Theory of Probabilities to the Question of the Combination of Testimonies or Judgements. Anticipating the awarding of Scotland?s prestigious biennial Keith Prize by the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Boole submitted this 56-page paper for consideration for the award, which consisted of a gold medal and up to £50.00. His submission met with great acclaim and was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, being the subject of the award for the 1855-1857 session. He was presented with the Keith Prize the following year on 1 March" (University College Cork - George Boole Bicentenary). - "With Boole in 1847 and 1854 began the algebra of logic, or what is now called Boolean algebra. Boole?s original and remarkable general symbolic method of logical inference, fully stated in Laws of Thought (1854), enables one, given any propositions involving any number of terms, to draw conclusions that are logically contained in the premises. He also attempted a general method in probabilities, which would make it possible from the given probabilities of any system of events to determine the consequent probability of any other event logically connected with the given events" (Encyclopedia Britannica). - Kaum gebräunt.