Boolean Logic Explained: From Pub Conversations to George Boole and Modern AI

I was sitting in a pub last week (like you do) and Boolean logic came up. So, the Boolean expression for this scenario evaluates to True because I was sitting in a pub at that precise moment in time talking about it! If we wanted to model the general probability of this niche conversation happening in a British pub, we can express it through the following logical conditions: Chances=(NerdInPub\lor (ExamCram\land \neg LastOrders))\land \neg FootballIsOn\ And if that leaves you a little nonplussed, then maybe some Boolean 101 is in order. Fear not – BBC Ideas have already imagined that very scenario and prepared the video below to satisfy your curiosity. It’s a great, straightforward, video – and one of the things I like most about it is that it doesn’t overlook George Boole’s wife, Mary Everest. Yes, that last name is familiar – the mountain was named for her uncle, Sir George Everest. Mary helped to edit George’s seminal work The Laws of Thought. Genius travels, apparently – the…