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  1. Hamilton, Boole and Their Algebras (2015)

    Subject
    Mathematics

    This lecture by Professor Raymond Flood explores the legacies of William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) and George Boole (1815-1864). Hamilton discovered quaternions, a non-commutative algebraic system, and did...

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  2. Mini Metro gets car of the Year award (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with David Boole of British Leyland on the naming of the company’s Mini Metro in the European Car of the Year awards for 1981. Male interviewer not identified. Sound is in mono.

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  3. Liberation of Algebra, The (1987 Video)

    Producer
    Glan Thomas
    Subject
    Mathematics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL), £34.99

    Looks at the work of William Rowan Hamilton in Dublin and George Boole in Cork. Uses Hamilton’s discovery of quaternions to Booles’ The Laws of Thought’, as the foundations for work in the fields of...

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  4. Joy of Logic, The (2014)

    Director
    Catherine Gale
    Subject
    Mathematics; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (PAL, 60 minutes), £20

    BBC 4 programme presented by Dave Cliff, professor of computer science and engineering at Bristol University, With the help of 25 seven-year-olds, Professor Cliff creates, for the first time, a computer...

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