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George Boole
b.2 Nov 1815
d.8 Dec 1864
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  1. Mary Ellen Boole1856 - 1908
  2. Margaret Boole1858 -
  3. Alicia Boole1860 - 1940
  4. Lucy Everest Boole1862 - 1904
  5. Ethel Lilian Boole1864 - 1960
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Name George Boole
Gender Male
Birth[1] 2 Nov 1815
Marriage to Mary Everest
Death[1] 8 Dec 1864
Reference Number Q134661 (Wikidata)


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George Boole (; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains Boolean algebra. Boolean logic is credited with laying the foundations for the Information Age.[1] Boole maintained that:

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 George Boole, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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