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Boole was born in 1815 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, the son of John Boole Snr (1779–1848), a shoemaker [7] and Mary Ann Joyce. [8] 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. [9]
Desmond MacHale (born 28 January 1946) is an Irish mathematician who is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork. [1] [2] He is an author and speaker on several subjects, including George Boole, lateral thinking puzzles, and humour.
In 2010, the entire manuscript was digitised by Irish Script on Screen in advance of the public exhibition of the book at University College, Cork (UCC), in 2011. In 2020, the Book of Lismore was donated to University College, Cork, by the Chatsworth Settlement Trust. The university plans to display it in their Boole Library. [27] [28]
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
UCC Student Centre with the O'Rahilly Arts and Commerce Building opposite. As of 2022, University College Cork (UCC) had 24,195 students. [3] These included 16,849 in undergraduate programmes, [3] 7,346 in postgraduate study and research, [3] and 2,800 in adult continuing education across undergraduate, postgraduate and short courses.
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities by George Boole, published in 1854, is the second of Boole's two monographs on algebraic logic. Boole was a professor of mathematics at what was then Queen's College, Cork, now University College Cork, in Ireland.
Theatre Owners Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s. The theaters mostly had white owners, though about a third of them had Black owners, [1] including the recently restored Morton Theater in Athens, Georgia, originally operated by "Pinky" Monroe Morton, and Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia owned and operated by Charles ...
In 1957, the Evangelical and Reformed Church joined with the General Council of Congregational Christian Churches to form the UCC. The Rev. James Wagner was the last president of the denomination. Upon the union on June 25 of that year, he became, along with former Congregational Christian general minister Fred Hoskins, a co-president of the ...