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Interesting facts about George Boole

By Symbat Mukhanbetzhankyzy
  • George Boole born

    George Boole born

    George Boole born November 2, 1815, Lincoln, Lincolnshire

  • Opens his own school

  • Newton’s achievements

    Gives public address on Newton’s achievements

  • Royal Society Gold Prize in Mathematics

    Royal Society Gold Prize in Mathematics
    George Boole won the first gold prize for mathematics awarded by the Royal Society in 1844 for his paper “On a General Method in Analysis.”

  • Gives talk at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

    Gives talk at the Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, and meets William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) — they become lifelong friends
  • Boole’s book

    Boole’s book

    Boole’s 1847 book, Mathematical Analysis of Logic, will be referred to as MAL; the 1854 book, Laws of Thought, as LT.

  • Mathematical Analysis of Logic

    Publishes Mathematical Analysis of Logic

  • GEORGE AND MARY BOOLE HAD FIVE DAUGHTERS

    George and Mary Boole married in Cork, Ireland In 1855 and the couple went on to add five daughters to their family: Mary Ellen, Margaret, Alicia, Lucy, and Ethel Lilian.
  • Death

    Death

    Death from pneumonia, Cork, Ireland