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George Boole was born on Silver Street in Lincoln.
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He opened his own school
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GEORGE BOOLE FOUNDED TWO SCHOOLS IN LINCOLN
George attended his first class at school aged 2 and by the age of 19 he was lecturing in Lincoln on another local hero, Sir Isaac Newton. His passion for education and learning led him to found two schools in the city; one in Free School Lane in 1834 and one at Pottergate in 1840. Neither exist today, but a plaque can be seen at the site of the ‘Boarding School for Young Gentlemen’ on Pottergate. -
BOOLE WON A ROYAL MEDAL
The Royal Society has given Royal Medals for outstanding achievements in biological, physical and applied sciences since 1825. In 1844, George Boole was awarded the Royal Medal for Mathematics for his paper ‘On a General Method of Analytics’. This paper, and the award of the prestigious medal, drew the attention of Britain’s leading mathematicians and would lead to his professorship at Queen’s College Cork (now University College Cork) in Ireland 5 years later. -
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 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. -
BOOLE WAS A SELF-TAUGHT LINGUIST
Aged 10, George’s talent for languages was apparent and his father John arranged for additional tuition in Latin. Having mastered this language, he went on to teach himself Greek, French, German, and Italian. It’s not surprising that his command of language led him to also master algebra and later devise Boolean logic – the building blocks of our digital world today.