Thank you all for coming tonight. I am here to represent one of the greatest enlighteners of our time, my great uncle George Boole. He was born on the 2nd of November of 1815. He was best known as the developer of Boolean algebra. He was born in
Lincoln, England. My uncle was great and was seen as a “self-taught mathematician” (http://www.answers.com/topic/george-boole) He established himself at a young age attending “a school in
Lincoln for children of tradesmen run by two Misses Clarke when he was less than two years old”. (http://www.gap system.org/~history/Biographies/Boole.html) At a young age my uncle had put himself through academics. It was not until his father’s friend Mr. Gibson showed him the door to perform in commercial studies and “he remained until he was seven years old.” Although Mr. Gibson showed him the door into commercial, his own father showed him “his early instructions into mathematics.” My uncle was taught to speak other languages such as Latin. My uncle’s teachings were possible through my grandfather’s help by having him “receive instruction in Latin from a local bookstore.” He maintained his interest in languages, began to study mathematics seriously, and gave up ideas which he had to enter the Church. The first advanced mathematics book he read was Lacroix’s Differential and integral calculus. My uncle was never the type to wait around for things to come to him. He felt that learning wasn’t’ for him and he wanted to teach therefore “In 1833 he moved to a new teaching position in Liverpool but he only remained there for six months before moving to Hall’s Academy in Waddington, four miles from Lincoln. In 1834 he opened his own school in
Lincoln although he was only 19 years old.” Having opened his own school was one of the greatest accomplishments because he established himself as an independent individual. He created his first mathematic paper that consisted of works that he studies such as the “works of Laplace and Lagrange.” Having taken notes he learned from what he studied. “He began publishing regularly in the
Cambridge Mathematical Journal and his interests were influenced by Duncan Gregory as he began to study algebra.” My uncle got involved with many other enlighteners such as Augusta De Morgan around the year of 1842. The greatest acknowledgement toward my uncle was “in 1849 he was appointed professor of mathematics at Queen’s College in
Ireland.” (http://www.answers.com/topic/george-boole). I would like to thank many people that motivated him in his success. Some of those people would be his successors such as Augusta De Morgan to allow him to enlighten his ideas and follow through with his own. Thank you all for coming out and I thank you for inducting my uncle into the hall of fame.
December 14, 2006...9:17 pm
Byron Quintanilla Assignment # 3 Hall of Fame Induction
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