George Boole facts for kids
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Not to be confused with George Boolos.
Quick facts for kids George Boole | |
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Boole, c. | |
| Born | ()2 November Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | 8 December () (aged 49) Ballintemple, Cork, Ireland |
| Education | Bainbridge's Commercial Academy |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Everest Boole |
| Era | 19th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | British algebraic logic |
| Institutions | Lincoln Mechanics' Institute Free School Lane, Lincoln University College Cork |
Main interests | Mathematics, logic, philosophy of mathematics |
Notable ideas | Abstract algebraic logic Boolean algebra Boolean function Boolean polynomials Boolean ring Boole's expansion theorem Boole's inequality Boole's rule Boole's syllogistic Boole–Fréchet inequalities Euler–Boole summation Imprecise probability Invariant theory Wholistic reference |
George Boole (; 2 November – 8 December ) was a largely self-taughtEnglishmathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ir
| George Boole | |
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| Mathematician | |
| Specialty | Logic, philosophy of mathematics |
| Born | Nov. 2, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England |
| Died | Dec. 8, (at age 49) Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland |
| Nationality | British |
George Boole was an English mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic. He is best known for his book Laws of Thought and for being the inventor of Boolean logic, which later formed the basis of modern digital computer, George is regarded as the founder of the field of computer science.
Early Life
George was born on November 2, in Lincoln, England. His parents were Mary Joyce and John Boole. John made shoes, but he was very much interested in science and especially the application of mathematics to scientific instruments. The Boole family was not well off and part of the reason was due to John’s love of science and mathematics. This meant that he never devoted all his energy in the family business to create enough money.
After nine years of marriage, the couple had George, their first child. George Boole was christened the very day he was born. Apart from this, he was a very weak c
The Life and Work of George Boole
MacHale's book is a major achievement and deserves to be a bestseller ~Times Higher Education Supplement
Well researched and written, the book can be thoroughly recommended ~The Irish Times
Boole has been fortunate in finding a biographer of the calibre of Dr MacHale ~The Irish Examiner
As part of the celebration for the bicentennial of the birth of George Boole, Cork University Press has issued a corrected edition of MacHale's well-researched, scholarly biography of Boole. Boole Press published the first edition in under the title George Boole, His Life and Work. MacHale provides a new preface and Ian Stewart a new foreword; except for the omission of an appendix of additional references, the new edition is an OCR'd reprint. MacHale (emer., University College Cork, Ireland) creates for general readers an admirable portrait of a brilliant, self-taught mathematician. Boole's research deeply impacted differential and difference equations, probability theory, and linear algebra; he created Boolean algebra, the foundation for the modern digital world, and he birthed invariant theory and symbolic logic. MacHale incorporates Boole
George Boole
About the book
" He was a brilliant thinker, the possessor of a truly original mind. His story is our story: the creation of one of the great intellectual pillars that support our modern world. It is the story of a remarkable man, beautifully told."
Ian Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, at the University of Warwick, England, and popular-science and science-fiction writer
George Boole was born in Lincoln, England, the son of a struggling shoemaker. Boole was forced to leave school at the age of sixteen and never attended a university. He taught himself languages, natural philosophy and mathematics. After his father’s business failed he supported the entire family by becoming an assistant teacher, eventually opening his own boarding school in Lincoln. He began to produce original mathematical research and, in , he was awarded the first gold medal for mathematics by the Royal Society.
Boole was deeply interested in the idea of expressing the workings of the human mind in symbolic form, and his two books on this subject, The
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