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George Boole was born in Lincoln
George Boole was born on Nov. 2, 1815, in Lincoln. He attended a primary school of the National Society and then a school for commercial subjects. This was the last of his formal schooling but not the end of his education, for he inherited a talent for self-study from his father, a shoemaker by trade but a philosopher by inclination. -
Boole became an assistant teacher in an elementary school
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George’s father became the curator of its library
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he opened his own school.
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Boole's pioneering paper on the calculus of operators won the Royal Society's gold medal and established his reputation among mathematicians
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He published The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, the slim booklet that initiated modern symbolic logic
In it Boole showed how all the ponderous verbalism of Aristotelian logic could be rendered in a crisp algebra that was remarkably similar to the ordinary algebra of numbers. -
Boole finally lost his amateur status
He was appointed professor of mathematics at the new Queen's College in Cork, Ireland. His best-known work, An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (1854) -
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George worked as a schoolmaster
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Boole married Mary Everest
she bore him five daughters. Their life together was serene but short -
He was died in Ballintemple, County Cork, Ireland
Boole died on Dec. 8, 1864, of pneumonia. The citizens of Lincoln installed a stained-glass window in the Cathedral to his memory.
