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Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole.
Mary Everest Boole (Wickwar, Gloucestershire, 11 de março de 1832 – Middlesex, 17 de maio de 1916) foi uma matemática autodidata notória por seus trabalhos didáticos sobre matemática, como Filosofia e Diversão da Álgebra e como esposa do colega matemático George Boole.
Mary Everest Boole was an English mathematician who was married to George Boole. She wrote a number of books on mathematical education. View three larger pictures. Biography. Mary Everest was the daughter of Reverend Thomas Roupell Everest (1800-1855), Rector of Wickwar, and Mary Ryall (born 1815).
Mary Everest Boole was a miraculous woman who, widowed for fifty years, raised her five daughters and made countless contributions towards the mathematical education of many girls and boys. Mary considered herself a mathematical psychologist.
In his influential Laws of Thought (1854), the mathematician George Boole presented a formulation of logic using algebraic expressions and manipulations. His widow, Mary Everest Boole, undertook an ambitious project of disseminating his ideas by introducing lay audiences to the law of pulsation, a prescription for correct reasoning that ...
Mary Boole regarded herself as an educational psychologist and to understand how children learn mathematics and science using the reasoning part of their mind, their physical bodies and their unconscious processes.
Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was the wife of the British mathematician George Boole. A self-trained mathematician in her own right, she authored several works on didactical aspects of mathematics: the psychology of learning mathematics and methods of teaching the subject.
