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2 unusual facts about Boolean algebra


Brian Rotman

During this time he wrote, with G. T. Kneebone, a graduate textbook on set theory, The Theory of Sets and Transfinite Numbers, as well as numerous papers on ordered structures and Boolean algebras, and in 1977 published Jean Piaget: Psychologist of the Real an exposition and critique of the ideas behind the work of the Swiss child psychologist.

Median algebra

In a Boolean algebra, or more generally a distributive lattice, the median function \langle x,y,z \rangle = (x \vee



see also

Edward Vermilye Huntington

He revisited Boolean axiomatics in 1933, proving that Boolean algebra required but a single binary operation (denoted below by infix '+') that commutes and associates, and a single unary operation, complementation, denoted by a postfix prime.

KMAP

Karnaugh map, a method to simplify Boolean algebra expressions