Rise of modern logic The period between the fourteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century had been largely one of decline and neglect, and is generally regarded as barren by historians of logic. The revival of logic occurred in the mid-nineteenth century, at the beginning of a revolutionary period where the subject developed into a rigorous and formalistic discipline whose exemplar was the exact method of proof used in mathematics. The development of the modern "symbolic" or "mathematical" logic during this period is the most significant in the 2000-year history of logic, and is arguably one of the most important and remarkable events in human intellectual history.
rise of modern logic the period between the fourteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century had been largely one of decline and neglect and is generally regarded as barren by historians of logic the revival of logic occurred in the mid-nineteenth century at the beginning of a revolutionary period where the subject developed into a rigorous and formalistic discipline whose exemplar was the exact method of proof used in mathematics the development of the modern "symbolic" or "mathematical" logic during this period is the most significant in the 2000-year history of logic and is arguably one of the most important and remarkable events in human intellectual history