Telesis "...an ancient Greek word signifying the achievement of a steady progress towards an objective through careful planning & the intelligent use of resources"
The Englishman George Boole worked out and published the seminal relationships and mathematics of logic based upon human reason in 1854.
Claude Elwood Shannon
1916-2001
However, the world needed to wait another 83 years for Claude Shannon, the American Engineer, who was the first to recognise its relevance to the design of circuits in 1937.
Claude Shannon was instrumental in launching Boolean Logic into the digital age. Read about this and how he contributed to one of the most amazing technological revolutions the world has known.
Logic
Logic in the form of Boolean Logic was set out in a remarkable treatise written by George Boole, entitled "The Laws of Thought on which are founded The Mathematic Theories of Logic and Probabilities" and published in 1854. This set out basic logical algorithms to explain how humans deduce.
The same logical mathematics is critical for the design and implementation of information systems logic components. It also provides the structure for building general information systems, automated processes as well as expert knowledge-based systems.
In arriving at conclusions as to the best options for taking decisions in systems design as well as social and political questions, Boolean Logic, qualified by the degree of certainty of facts applied, expressed in terms of probabilities, provides the basis for the powerful process of decision analysis.
This broad range of relevance of Boolean Logic is also extended to the explanation of how we as humans deduce things from facts so as to orientate thoughts and applied actions. These are elements of the learning process which when combined with the repetitive application of learned technique transforms into a learning curve. The learning curve, the relationship between the gain in efficiency in output with every doubling of historic throughput, is a powerful tool in establishing the probable limits of physical and economic efficiency over time.
Scripts are the languages used, again based upon Boolean Logic, to provide the functional logic to the processes used by information systems in achieving their objectives.
