| The Life and Work of George Boole (Cork University Press) |
| Monday, 02 November 2015 |
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Born on November 2, 1815 Boole has been variously described as the founder of pure mathematics, father of computer science and discoverer of symbolic logic. With the subtitle, A Prelude to the Digital Age this biography of George Boole is by Desmond MacHale, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, where Boole was the first professor of mathematics. 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. <ASIN: 1782050043> 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. Author: Desmond McHale Visit Book Watch Archive for hundreds more titles. Follow @bookwatchiprog on Twitter or subscribe to I Programmer's Books RSS feed for each day's new addition to Book Watch and for new reviews. To have new titles included in Book Watch contact BookWatch@i-programmer.info 
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