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Boole, George, An Investigation of the Laws of 'Thought, 1854; reprinted Dover, 1951. Sect.

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Portrait inserted, MRW, 2012. Roy. Irish Acad.

In the summer of 1840 he had opened a boarding school in Lincoln and again the whole family had moved with him.

If George was a weak child after his birth, he certainly soon became strong and healthy. He began publishing regularly in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal and his interests were influenced by Duncan Gregory as he began to study algebra.

Boole wrote to De Morgan on 17 October 1850(see for example [7]):-

... By some of his friends and pupils, Proc.

Hirst described Boole as:-

... These finding were published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of London; in return the Society awarded him a medal. Logic3(1)(1982), 33-53.

F E Hackett, The method of George Boole, Proc.

Boole was forced to leave school at the age of sixteen and never attended a university. He published around 50 papers and was one of the first to investigate the basic properties of numbers, such as the distributive property, that underlie the subject of algebra. A local schoolmaster challenged the entry, thereby sparking a controversy which lasted many weeks.

His mathematical work was beginning to bring him fame. Over the next five years Mary Ann and John had three further children, Mary Ann, William and Charles.

In his twentieth year, Boole opened a school of his own in Lincoln, only to return to Waddington shortly thereafter when the schoolmaster there died. The circumstances are described by Macfarlane in [18] as follows:-

One day in 1864 he walked from his residence to the College, a distance of two miles, in the drenching rain, and lectured in wet clothes.

Sect. When he was seven George attended a primary school where he was taught by Mr Reeves. ...