From George Boole To John Bell — The Origins of Bell’s Inequality

We consider a combinatorial problem which was enunciated by George Boole (1854) and explore its identity with fundamental puzzles in a diverse range of fields such as statistical theory, propositional logic, the theory of computational complexity, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in quantum mechanics, the theory of neural networks, and the Ising spin model.

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