| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Early Life -- His Own Master -- Social Involvement -- Early Mathematical Work -- The Cork Professorship -- Queen's College Cork -- Love and Marriage -- The Cuvierian Society -- The Laws of Thought -- Controversy -- Family Life and Social Attitudes -- Poetry -- Boole and Hamilton : Some Unanswered Questions -- Religion -- Later Mathematical Work -- The Final Years -- The Remarkable Boole Family |
| Summary |
This book, aimed at the general reader and now available again, is the first full-length biography of George Boole (1815-1864) who has been variously described as the founder of pure mathematics, one of the fathers of computer science and discoverer of symbolic logic |
| Notes |
Originally published in 1985 by Boole Press Limited |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Boole, George, 1815-1864.
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Boole, George, 1815-1864 |
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Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Mathematicians -- Ireland -- Biography
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MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
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MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
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MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
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Mathematicians
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Great Britain
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Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781782050063 |
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178205006X |
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9781782050056 |
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1782050051 |
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