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Author MacHale, Desmond

Title The Life and Work of George Boole : a Prelude to the Digital Age / Desmond MacHale
Edition New edition
Published Cork : Cork University Press, 2014

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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
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Subject Boole, George, 1815-1864.
SUBJECT Boole, George, 1815-1864 fast
Subject Mathematicians -- Great Britain -- Biography
Mathematicians -- Ireland -- Biography
MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
Mathematicians
Great Britain
Ireland
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782050063
178205006X
9781782050056
1782050051