Letting Boole’s memory collapse doesn’t add up

“George Boole was the first Professor of Mathematics at Queen’s College, Cork (now University College Cork) and is generally considered as the ‘father’ of computer science, although he wouldn’t have known that at the time. He died in Cork in 1864 at the young age of 49 …” (more)

[Eoin Lettice, Communicate Science, 21 October]

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