To return to the Gingrich Guide click close. Term Definition Boolean Operators George Boole was an English mathematician who helped establish the modern field of mathematics called symbolic logic.
Boolean logic uses words called operators.
This is most useful to your research needs because databases use Boolean logic to locate only those items that match your search. The more terms or concepts we combine in a search with AND logic, the fewer records we will retrieve. OR logic collates the results to retrieve all the unique records containing one term, the other, or both. The more terms or concepts we combine in a search with OR logic, the more records we will retrieve. Copyright Copyright is the right of an author or his assignee, under statute, to print and publish his literary or artistic work, exclusively of all other persons.