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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.
Summary. 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).
Learn about the life and achievements of Mary Everest Boole, a pioneer of mathematical education and a close associate of George Boole. Discover how she taught, wrote, and influenced progressive schools with her logic and philosophy.
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 ...
- K. G. Valente
- 2010
Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) Educationalist. Mary Everest Boole was born in Gloucestershire in 1832 where her father was a minister. She spent her early years in Poissy, France where she had a private tutor. On moving back to England at age eleven she helped her father with his work and was largely self-taught.
Frank J. Swetz reviews Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, a book by Mary Everest Boole, the wife of George Boole. The book reflects her views on the psychology and methods of teaching mathematics in the Victorian era.
