{"product_id":"the-life-and-work-of-george-boole-a-prelude-to-the-digital-age","title":"The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eFounder of the field of Computer Science   150th Anniversary of his death  This book is the first full-length biography of George Boole (18151864)  who has been variously described as the founder of pure mathematics  father of computer science and discoverer of symbolic logic. Boole is mostly remembered as a mathematician and logician whose work found application in computer science long after his death  but this biography reveals Boole as much more than a mathematical genius; he was a child prodigy  self-taught linguist and practical scientist  turbulent academic and devoted teacher  social reformer and poet  psychologist and humanitarian  religious thinker and good family man  truly a nineteenth-century polymath.  George Boole was born in Lincoln  England  the son of a struggling shoemaker. Boole was forced to leave school at the age of sixteen and never attended a university. He taught himself languages  natural philosophy and mathematics. After his fathers business failed he supported the entire family by becoming an assistant teacher  eventually opening his own boarding school in Lincoln. He began to produce original mathematical research and  in 1844  he was awarded the first gold medal for mathematics by the Royal Society.  Boole was deeply interested in the idea of expressing the workings of the human mind in symbolic form  and his two books on this subject  The Mathematical Analysis of Logic (1847) and An Investigation of the Laws of Thought (1854) form the basis of todays computer science and electronic circuitry. He also made important contributions to areas of mathematics such as invariant theory (of which he was the founder)  differential and difference equations and probability. Much of the \"new mathematics\" now studied by children in school  set theory  binary numbers and Boolean algebra  has its origins in Booles work.  In 1849  Boole was appointed first professor of mathematics in Irelands new Queens College (now University College) Cork and taught and worked there until his tragic and premature death in 1864. In 1855  he had married Mary Everest  a niece of the man after whom the worlds highest mountain is named. The Booles had five remarkable daughters including Alicia  a mathematician  Lucy  a professor of chemistry  and Ethel (Voynich)  a novelist and author of The Gadfly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987110621237,"sku":"ByrdShop_1782050043","price":37.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781782050049.jpg?v=1770924996","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-life-and-work-of-george-boole-a-prelude-to-the-digital-age","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}