Boolean algebra
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a system of symbolic logic devised by George Boole; used in computers
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A Boolean algebra with only one element is called a trivial Boolean algebra or a degenerate Boolean algebra.
Boolean algebra came of age as serious mathematics with the work of Marshall Stone in the 1930s, and with Garrett Birkhoff 's 1940 Lattice Theory.
Calling (1), (2), and (4) a Robbins algebra, the question then becomes: Is every Robbins algebra a Boolean algebra?
For any set A, the power set is a Boolean algebra under the operations of union and intersection.
For infinite Boolean algebras this is no longer true, but every infinite Boolean algebra can be represented as a subalgebra of a power set Boolean algebra (see Stone's representation theorem ).
Furthermore, a subset of a Boolean ring is a ring ideal (prime ring ideal, maximal ring ideal) if and only if it is an order ideal (prime order ideal, maximal order ideal) of the Boolean algebra.