Boolean logic, named for mathematician George Boole, is pivotal to computer science for its connection to binary–the basis on which computer function.

In this unit you will be exploring booleans in more depth beyond their use as the primitive type in Java. As you already know, booleans can hold either a true or false value. The idea of true/false has a much greater implication in the real world as well through general logical thinking. There is even an entire system of algebra built around booleans! But we won’t go quite that detailed.

We are going to look at the basics of formal logic and its applications to binary. By the end of this unit you should have a better understanding of logic and hopefully of computers as well.

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