Sculpture of George Boole Full figure statuette of Boole, standing with right hand extended forward holding a piece of chalk and left hand behind his back clasping a book with the title 'Logic'. The chalk is reference to Boole's lifelong career as a teacher, culminating in his becoming the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork. The book evokes his great work 'The Mathematical Analysis of Logic' (1847); a foundational work on algebraic or 'Boolean' logic which paved the way for binary computational logic. Boole is depicted as a young man in typical Victorian dress of full-length trousers, shirt and waistcoat with a double-breasted frock coat (unbuttoned). The likeness is based on the only known photograph of Boole, taken before 1844, which is in the collection of Sir Geoffrey Taylor, Boole's descendant and the basis of most other known likensses. The stern expression Boole adopts in the photograph has been made more genial for the sculpture. Mounted on a wooden base with two brass, engraved plaque recording subject, sculptor and donor. 2022-2023