George Boole Research Paper

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In order to explain the life and accomplishments of George Boole’s life, the following questions had to be answered: Who was George Boole? What did George Boole have to do with mathematics? Did George Boole make any advances in mathematics? Who was in George Boole’s life? What all did George Boole accomplish in his life time?
John Boole and Mary Ann Joyce married on September 14, 1806. After 9 years, Mary still hadn’t had her first child. She was starting to lose hope of ever having a son, but the night of November 2nd, 1815 a little, English boy of the name George Boole was born into the arms of Mary Ann Joyce and John Boole in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. Mary Ann Joyce was so thankful to finally have her first child. Their family didn’t start off the best. John Boole was a shoemaker, but loved the arts of science and mathematics.
Their little family was struggling because John Boole was putting all of his time into science and mathematics and not making money for his family. John Boole wanted to start to get George Boole to love the arts of science and mathematics as early as he could. John Boole put George Boole into schooling at the age of one and a half. At the age of seven, George Boole was already enrolled into a primary school where one of his teachers got him interested in the learning of different languages. John Boole was enjoying how George Boole really liked the arts of language, science, and mathematics so he got involved with The Lincoln Mechanics’ Institution which was founded in 1833. In 1834 John Boole became curator of the library associated with the Institution. Because of the access to all of the libraries’ books, George Boole was able to teach himself French, Italian, and German, all by the a...

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...fan of Boole, he even saw him the day Boole lectured in his soggy clothes from that cold rainstorm, and was able to file a report requesting to name this crater in the moon after Boole. A couple months later the letter was returned approving that this crater in the moon could be named after Boole and was given the name crater Boole.
Overall George Boole’s life was filled with many moments of success, but was Boole an advance towards where mathematics is today? As many times that Boole was recognized his work finally paid off. At one point even Albert Einstein used Boole’s methods of mathematics to continue to advance of his own mathematics and sciences.
Lastly, to wrap up, after living for a short 49 years, Boole is buried in the Church of Ireland. Boolean algebra and Boolean Logic are still around to this day and probably will be for many, many more years.

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