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He is born
Boole was born in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, the son of John Boole Sr (1779–1848), a shoemaker[5] and Mary Ann Joyce.[6] He had a primary school education, and received lessons from his father, but due to a serious decline in business, he had little further formal and academic teaching. -
Mechanics Institute
Boole participated in the Mechanics Institute, in the Greyfriars, Lincoln, which was founded in 1833.Edward Bromhead, who knew John Boole through the institution, helped George Boole with mathematics book and he was given the calculus text of Sylvestre François Lacroix by the Rev. George Stevens Dickson of St Swithin's, Lincoln. Without a teacher, it took him many years to master calculus. -
He studied
From 1838 onwards Boole was making contacts with sympathetic British academic mathematicians and reading more widely. He studied algebra in the form of symbolic methods, as far as these were understood at the time, and began to publish research papers. -
Works
Boole's first published paper was Researches in the theory of analytical transformations, with a special application to the reduction of the general equation of the second order, printed in the Cambridge Mathematical Journal in February 1840 (Volume 2, no. 8, pp. 64–73), and it led to a friendship between Boole and Duncan Farquharson Gregory, the editor of the journal. His works are in about 50 articles and a few separate publications. -
Symbolic logic
In 1847 Boole published the pamphlet Mathematical Analysis of Logic. He later regarded it as a flawed exposition of his logical system, and wanted An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities to be seen as the mature statement of his views. -
Professor at Cork
Boole's status as mathematician was recognised by his appointment in 1849 as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork (now University College Cork (UCC)) in Ireland. -
He met his future wife
He met his future wife, Mary Everest, there in 1850 while she was visiting her uncle John Ryall who was Professor of Greek. -
they married
They married some years later in 1855.He maintained his ties with Lincoln, working there with E. R. Larken in a campaign to reduce prostitution. -
Honours and awards
Boole was awarded the Keith Medal by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1855 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1857.He received honorary degrees of LL.D. from the University of Dublin and the University of Oxford. -
Analysis
In 1857, Boole published the treatise On the Comparison of Transcendents, with Certain Applications to the Theory of Definite Integrals, in which he studied the sum of residues of a rational function. -
Differential equations
Boole completed two systematic treatises on mathematical subjects during his lifetime. The Treatise on Differential Equations appeared in 1859, and was followed, the next year, by a Tr1859eatise on the Calculus of Finite Differences, a sequel to the former work. -
Death
In late November 1864, Boole walked, in heavy rain, from his home at Lichfield Cottage in Ballintemple to the university, a distance of three miles, and lectured wearing his wet clothes.[38] He soon became ill, developing pneumonia. Boole's condition worsened and on 8 December 1864, he died of fever-induced pleural effusion.