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George Boole
Goerge Boole was an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician. He was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. His father's name is John Boole and mother's name is Mary Ann Joyce. -
Boole's school
Boole established his own school in Linkoln. -
Boole's first article
Boole's first published paper was Researches in the theory of analytical transformations, with a special application to the reduction of the general equation of the second order, printed in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal -
Boole's influental paper
Boole published an influential paper in early invariant theory. -
Building society
George Boole, with Edmund Larken and others, set up a building society. A building society is a financial institution owned by its members as a mutual organization. -
Boole's first work on symbolic logic.
Boole published The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, the first of his works on symbolic logic. -
First Professor
Boole was appointed as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. -
Mary Everest
Boole met his future wife Mary Everest. -
Wedding
George Boole and Mary Everest got marrted.
Their children: Ethel Lilian, Alicia Boole Stott, Lucy Everest Boole, Margaret Taylor, Mary Ellen Hinton. -
Boole's honour
Boole was awarded the Keith Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh -
Fellow of Royal Society
George Boole was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) -
On the Comparison of Transcendents
Boole published the treatise On the Comparison of Transcendents, with Certain Applications to the Theory of Definite Integrals -
The Treatise on Differential Equations
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Death
Boole walked, in heavy rain, from his home at Lichfield Cottage in Ballintemple to the university, a distance of three miles, and lectured wearing his wet clothes He soon became ill, developing pneumonia.George Boole died of fever-induced pleural effusion. He was buried in the Church of Ireland cemetery of St Michael's, Church Road, Blackrock.
