This chapter begins with the underlying concepts of crisp logic, deals with the definition of an algebra or algebraic system and reviews the fundamentals of Boolean algebra. It argues that the entries ...

There are two main reasons mathematics has fascinated humanity for two thousand years. First, math gives us the tools we need to understand the universe and build things. Second, the study of ...

Mathematician George Boole died 150 years ago. Boolean logic, the system he invented, is still used in modern computer programming, writes Chris Stokel-Walker. Boole walked two miles to the lecture ...

Abstract: Query formulation is increasingly performed by systems that need to guess a user's intent (e.g. via spoken word interfaces). But how can a user know that the computational agent is returning ...