"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 was an English mathematician and logician whose work established Boolean algebra. He served as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College Cork. His symbolic logic became foundational to modern digital computing.