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ilization mostly survived on syllogisms and stoic logic for nearly two thousand years before George Boole devised his theory of binary logic in 1847. Boole developed an elegant mathematical system for representing logical statements that allowed simple arithmetical operations to answer logical questions.

the longest novel ever written. This is not quite true. Wikipedia reckons the longest novel is a French book, Artamene, with over 2.1 million words. Tolstoy comes in sixteenth, with a mere half million! Written in 1869, War and Peace tells the story of five Russian families during the Napoleonic wars. Or

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rley. The Library of Babel. Boston: David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2000. Chaitin, Gregory J. Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega. Atlantic Books, 2007. Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 2001. Chapter 6 Ayer, A. J. Language, Truth and Logic. 2nd ed. Dover Publications Inc., 2002. Boal

ends, anywhere. In a library in Calcutta, for instance, he once found a copy of George Boole’s 1854 book “An Investigation Into the Laws of Thought”. Boole invented symbolic logic on those pages and though his instincts were grounded in an age of steam and machines, his vision still echoes in 132 HOUSE

lives. A feeling of breathlessness in the face of speed isn’t new, of course. When Anna Karenina folds herself under an oncoming train at the end of Tolstoy’s novel, for instance, her suicide is as much metaphor as personal tragedy, a comment on the disorienting steam, engine, and rail pace of modernity.