Person Boole; George (1815 - 1864); mathematician Boole George mathematician 1815 - 1864 British Male Lincoln, England 02 November 1815 Cork, Ireland 08 December 1864 Burial: St Michael's Church of Ireland, Blackrock, County Cork

Cork (1856)

Mathematics Education: Self-taught, did not attend secondary school or have a university degree Career: First Professor of Mathematics, Queen's College, Cork (1849); Public Examiner for Degrees in the Queen's University; Honorary LL.D. from University of Dublin (1851); elected President of the Cuvierian Society (1855); awarded Keith Medal of Royal Society of Edinburgh (1857); honorary DCL from Oxford University (1859) Memberships: FCPS (1858) Grandfather of Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor (FRS 1919); wife Mary, daughter of Rev. T. R. Everest, Rector of Wickwar, Gloucestershire, niece of Colonel Sir Gerge Everest FRS (1790-1866); great grandfather of Howard Hinton, FRS. Medals and prizes: Royal Medal 1844 Fellow 11/06/1857 Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB; Irish Innovators Obituaries: Proc Roy Soc 1866-1867 vol 15 pp vi-xi References: W Kneale, 'Boole and the Algebra of Logic' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 53-63 Sir Geoffrey Taylor, 'George Boole, FRS, 1815-1864' in NR 1956-57 vol 12 pp 44-52, plate C S S, 'The Society's Library' in NR 1938 vol 1 pp 21-27 Papers in University College Cork - catalogue avaiable at http://booleweb.ucc.ie/documents/George_Boole_Descriptive_List.pdf International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 'An Investigation into the Laws of Thought, on which are founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities' 1854 2 Nov 1815 - 8 Dec 1864 NA6589 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes http://viaf.org/viaf/49282014 1d552681-612a-400d-959a-5cb74463ceed