George Boole

Standard Name: Boole, George

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Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Lilian Voynich
When ELV was just seven months old, her father died suddenly from complications with pneumonia, leaving the already poor family in financial distress.
MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press, 2014.
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Kennedy, Gerry. The Booles & The Hintons: Two dynasties that helped shape the modern world. Cork University Press, 2016.
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Family and Intimate relationships Ethel Lilian Voynich
English-born George Boole , ELV 's father, was an influential mathematician.
Oram, Hugh. An Irishman’s Diary. 21 Jan. 2008.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under George Boole
Garlick, Barbara. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Editor Mitchell, Sally, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988, p. 837.
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A professor of mathematics and later the Dean of the Science Division of the Faculty of Arts at Queen's College in Cork
Textual Features Ethel Lilian Voynich
Once again ELV 's fiction blends invention with aspects of her personal experience. Much of the novel is set in Cornwall, a place she regularly visited and enjoyed as a child.
Voynich, Ethel Lilian. Put Off Thy Shoes. Heinemann, 1945.
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MacHale, Desmond. The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. Cork University Press, 2014.
308
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1854: George Boole developed the first form of...

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1854

George Boole developed the first form of symbolic logic, known today as Boolean algebra.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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