George Boole

(2 November 1815 8 December 1864)

Ignas Jankauskas
Laurynas Daukas
Dovydas Jurenkovas
Simonas Juodis

George Boolewas

an English mathematician, philosopher

andlogician.
He
worked
in
the
fields
ofdifferentia
equationsandalgebraic logic, and is now best known as the author
ofThe Laws of Thought.

Early life
During childhood George learned Latin from a tutor and self taught
Greek, French and German languages.
From age 16 he worked as an assistant at Heigham's School in
Doncaster and started to financially support his brother, sister and
parents.
Started to study mathematics seriously. However, Without a
teacher, it took him many years to master calculus.
At age 19 Boole successfully established his own school at Lincoln.
In 1838 Boole took over Waddingtons Halls Academy after the
previous maintainer, Robert Hall, died.

Activity
Regularly published in Cambridge Mathematical Journal.
In 1849 he became the first professor of mathematics atQueen's
College, Corkin Ireland.
In 1854 he published book The Laws of Thought.
In 1857 Boole was electedFellow of the Royal Society and
receivedhonorary degreesofLL.D.from theUniversity of
DublinandOxford University.

Death
In 1864 when Boole walked in soaking rain for prolonged period
of time, he quickly became ill and developed cold and high fever.
His wife put Boole to bed and poured buckets of water over him
believing that this would cure him. However, neither Mary nor
George distinguished that this was a bad idea and Booles condition
worsened and on 8th of December, Boole passed away.

References
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/George_Bo
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Boole
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boole.html