Interesting facts about George Boole

By Aidos.Sadyk
  • George Boole was born in Lincoln

    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

  • George’s father became the curator of its library

  • he opened his own school.

  • Boole's pioneering paper on the calculus of operators won the Royal Society's gold medal and established his reputation among mathematicians

  • 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)
  • Period: to

    George worked as a schoolmaster

  • 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.