GEORGE BO OLE (1815--1864)
WRITTEN BY:MUSHARRAF-UL-HASSNAINDATED ON: 06/06/2014
GEORGE BOOLE (1815---1864):
PLACE OF BORN:
Born in LINCOLN,ENGLAND ,IN November 1815
FATHER OCCUPATION:
his father was a cobbler .
NOW ABOUT BOOLE LIFE:
Dew to his family difficult financial situation,Boole had to struggle hard to educate and support his family .Nevertheless ,he become one of the most important mathematician of the 1800s.
Although he considered a career as a clergyman ,he decided instead to go into teaching and soon afterward opened a school of his own .In his preparation for teaching mathematics,boole unsatisfied with textbook of his day.---decided to read the works of the great mathematicians.While reading papers of the great French mathematician Lagrange,Boole made discoveries in tne calculus of the variations ,the branch of analysis dealing with curves and surfaces optimizing certain parameters.
BOOLE BOOKS AND CONTRIBUTION IN MATHS:
IN 1848 Boole published The MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF LOGIC ,the first of his contributions of symbolic logic.
IN 1848 he was appointed professor fo mathematics at Queen College in cork,IRLAND.
IN 1854 he published THE LAWS OF THOUGHT ,his famous work,boole introduced what is now called BOOLEAN ALGEBRA in his honor
Boole wrote textbooks on different equations that were used in Great Britain Until the end of nineteenth century.
BOOLE MARRIAGE:
bole married in 1855 his wife was the niece of Greek's at Queen college.
BOOLE DEATH:
in 1864 Boole died died from pnemonia ,which he contracted as a result of keeping a lecture engagement even through he was soaking from a rainstrom.
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