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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 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Everest Boole has received more than 194,918 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Mary Everest Boole is the 814th most popular mathematician (down from 759th in 2019), the 4,118th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,003rd in 2019) and the 84th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mary Everest Boole ranks 814 out of 1,004. Before her are Maryna Viazovska, Carl Hindenburg, Yasumasa Kanada, Hans Lewy, Vladimir Voevodsky, and Christoph Gudermann. After her are Cornelius Lanczos, Arthur Geoffrey Walker, Armand Borel, James Waddell Alexander II, Boris Galerkin, and Laurent Lafforgue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Everest Boole ranks 87. Before her are Adalbert Krueger, Horatio Alger, Léon Gautier, William Thomas Blanford, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, and Gyula Szapáry. After her are Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Edward Newton, José María Campo Serrano, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, and Octave Chanute. Among people deceased in 1916, Mary Everest Boole ranks 135. Before her are Charles Booth, Alexander Voeikov, Alfred Cogniaux, Gorch Fock, Guido Romano, and Lorenzo Latorre. After her are Joseph Jacobs, Daniel Oliver, Aeneas Mackintosh, Oskar Gripenberg, Guido Gozzano, and Hermann Martens.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Everest Boole ranks 4,118 out of 8,785. Before her are D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (1860), Jane Ellen Harrison (1850), Cædmon (657), Estelle Winwood (1883), Mary Sidney (1561), and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990). After her are Linus Roache (1964), Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Kenneth McAlpine (1920), Richard Anthony Salisbury (1761), Thomas Ravenscroft (1592), and Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (1764).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Mary Everest Boole ranks 84. Before her are Benjamin Robins (1707), William Henry Young (1863), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Horace Lamb (1849), Grace Chisholm Young (1868), and Frank Morley (1860). After her are Arthur Geoffrey Walker (1909), Peter Tait (1831), Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Thomas Henderson (1798), Simon Donaldson (1957), and I. J. Good (1916).

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