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GEORGE BOOLE

George Boole was an English mathematician and logician. He was born in 1815 at Lincoln and died in 1864. Educated at Lincoln, he opened a school in his twentieth year, and by private study gained such proficiency in mathematics that in 1849 he was appointed to the mathematical chair in Queen's College, Cork, where the rest of his life was spent. In 1857 the universities of Dublin and Oxford conferred on him the degrees of LL.D. and D.C.L. respectively. In mathematics he wrote on Differential Equations; General Method in Analysis; The Comparison of Transcendents, etc. In logic he wrote An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, and The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, a profound and original work, in which a symbolic language and notation were employed in regard to logical processes.
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