1815 - 1864
George Boole (; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in Ireland. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, and is best known as the author of The Laws of Thought (1854) which contains Boolean algebra. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Boole has received more than 2,980,361 page views. His biography is available in 80 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). George Boole is the 41st most popular mathematician (down from 38th in 2019), the 172nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 158th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Mathematician.
George Boole is most famous for inventing Boolean algebra.
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Among mathematicians, George Boole ranks 41 out of 828. Before him are Gottlob Frege, Luca Pacioli, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Ada Lovelace, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Emmy Noether. After him are Eudoxus of Cnidus, Johann Bernoulli, Apollonius of Perga, Archytas, Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet.
1848 - 1925
HPI: 79.29
Rank: 35
1445 - 1517
HPI: 79.17
Rank: 36
1805 - 1859
HPI: 78.96
Rank: 37
1815 - 1852
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 38
1839 - 1914
HPI: 78.47
Rank: 39
1882 - 1935
HPI: 78.38
Rank: 40
1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 41
408 BC - 355 BC
HPI: 78.17
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1667 - 1748
HPI: 78.07
Rank: 43
262 BC - 190 BC
HPI: 77.81
Rank: 44
428 BC - 347 BC
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 45
1850 - 1891
HPI: 77.34
Rank: 46
1819 - 1903
HPI: 77.02
Rank: 47
Among people born in 1815, George Boole ranks 4. Before him are Otto von Bismarck, John Bosco, and Ada Lovelace. After him are Karl Weierstrass, Otto of Greece, Adolph Menzel, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Thomas Couture, Ildefons Cerdà, Louis-Jules Trochu, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Among people deceased in 1864, George Boole ranks 1. After him are Ferdinand Lassalle, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Vuk Karadžić, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Hong Xiuquan, Cheoljong of Joseon, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Leo von Klenze, and William I of Württemberg.
1815 - 1898
HPI: 89.69
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1815 - 1888
HPI: 79.85
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1815 - 1852
HPI: 78.78
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1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
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1815 - 1897
HPI: 76.52
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1815 - 1867
HPI: 73.92
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1815 - 1905
HPI: 71.62
Rank: 7
1815 - 1887
HPI: 70.94
Rank: 8
1815 - 1879
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 9
1815 - 1876
HPI: 70.10
Rank: 10
1815 - 1896
HPI: 70.00
Rank: 11
1815 - 1879
HPI: 69.97
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1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
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1825 - 1864
HPI: 76.68
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1791 - 1864
HPI: 76.47
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1804 - 1864
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1811 - 1864
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1787 - 1864
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1799 - 1864
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1814 - 1864
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1831 - 1864
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1793 - 1864
HPI: 71.41
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1784 - 1864
HPI: 70.16
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1781 - 1864
HPI: 69.86
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Among people born in United Kingdom, George Boole ranks 172 out of 6,924. Before him are Howard Carter (1874), Anne, Queen of Great Britain (1665), Edward Smith (1850), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Olav V of Norway (1903), and James Chadwick (1891). After him are Thomas Henry Huxley (1825), Jeff Beck (1944), Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830), Ken Loach (1936), William Golding (1911), and Cary Grant (1904).
1874 - 1939
HPI: 78.51
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1665 - 1714
HPI: 78.49
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1850 - 1912
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1955 - Present
HPI: 78.41
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1903 - 1991
HPI: 78.40
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1891 - 1974
HPI: 78.31
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1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
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1825 - 1895
HPI: 78.23
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1944 - Present
HPI: 78.16
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1830 - 1903
HPI: 78.15
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1936 - Present
HPI: 78.11
Rank: 176
1911 - 1993
HPI: 78.10
Rank: 177
1904 - 1986
HPI: 78.07
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Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, George Boole ranks 4. Before him are Bertrand Russell (1872), John Napier (1550), and Ada Lovelace (1815). After him are Alfred North Whitehead (1861), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Couch Adams (1819), John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), and John Horton Conway (1937).
1872 - 1970
HPI: 84.90
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1550 - 1617
HPI: 80.25
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1815 - 1852
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 3
1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
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1861 - 1947
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 5
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 6
1631 - 1677
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 7
1560 - 1621
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 8
1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
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1616 - 1703
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 10
1685 - 1731
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 11
1937 - 2020
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 12