The Algebra of Logic
Louis Couturat · Historical math monographs · 1914
Originally published in French in 1901 and translated into English by Lydia Gillingham Robinson in 1914, Louis Couturat's The Algebra of Logic is a systematic treatise investigating the fundamental relationship between logic and mathematics, powerfully arguing for the importance of mathematical logic as a necessary preliminary to logical mathematics. Drawing upon the work of logicians such as George Boole, William Stanley Jevons, and Ernst Schröder, Couturat details the algebraic reformulation of classic logic, demonstrates its applications to the theory of classes, propositions, and relations, and elucidates the universal nature of logical principles, making this book a foundational resource for anyone in the fields of symbolic logic and the philosophy of mathematics.