George Boole: Happy Birthday

George Boole was an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought which contains Boolean algebra.

Born: November 2, 1815, Lincoln, United Kingdom

Died: December 8, 1864, Ballintemple, Cork, Republic of Ireland

Influenced: Charles Sanders Peirce, William Stanley Jevons, more

Spouse: Mary Everest Boole (m. 1855–1864)

Children: Ethel Lilian Voynich, Alicia Boole Stott, Lucy Everest Boole, Margaret Taylor, Mary Ellen Boole Hinton