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Mary Everest Boole

1832 - 1916

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Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician married to logical pioneer George Boole during his years in Cork, Ireland. She is known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra. Her progressive ideas on education, as expounded in The Preparation of the Child for Science, included encouraging children to explore mathematics through playful activities such as curve stitching. Her life is of interest to feminists as an example of how women made careers in an academic system that did not welcome them. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Mary Everest Boole is the 821st most popular mathematician (down from 814th in 2024), the 4,342nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,118th in 2019) and the 88th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mary Everest Boole ranks 821 out of 1,004. Before her are David Gregory, Horace Lamb, Nathan Jacobson, Edward O. Thorp, Mikhail Suslin, and William Feller. After her are Anatoly Karatsuba, Stefan Mazurkiewicz, William Henry Young, S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan, Grigori Grabovoi, and Walter Rudin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Everest Boole ranks 91. Before her are Heinrich Gerber, Walter Q. Gresham, Isaac Israel Hayes, Edward Newton, Juris Alunāns, and Gyula Szapáry. After her are Boston Corbett, Mikhail Clodt von Jürgensburg, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Lizardo Montero Flores, Nikiforos Lytras, and Samuel Colman. Among people deceased in 1916, Mary Everest Boole ranks 137. Before her are Clements Markham, Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Sámuel Teleki, Béla Békessy, William Merritt Chase, and Lorenzo Latorre. After her are Samu Fóti, Charles Dawson, Aeneas Mackintosh, Gorch Fock, Boris Borisovich Golitsyn, and Charles Ericksen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Everest Boole ranks 4,343 out of 8,785. Before her are Stephen Barclay (1972), William Powell Frith (1819), Youth (1960), Virginia McKenna (1931), Ron Geesin (1943), and Brendan Perry (1959). After her are George Alexander Macfarren (1813), Alan Napier (1903), M. R. James (1862), Howard Donald (1968), Steve McClaren (1961), and Eric Stewart (1945).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Mary Everest Boole ranks 88. Before her are John Lennox (1943), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), E. T. Whittaker (1873), Frank Morley (1860), David Gregory (1659), and Horace Lamb (1849). After her are William Henry Young (1863), William Shanks (1812), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), Richard K. Guy (1916), and I. J. Good (1916).

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