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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 183,747 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Everest Boole is the 762nd most popular mathematician, the 4,011th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 84th most popular British Mathematician.

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  • 15

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Mary Everest Boole ranks 762 out of 823. Before her are Wilhelm Killing, Sergei Adian, Corrado Segre, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, Maxim Kontsevich, and Nathan Jacobson. After her are William Hopkins, Robin Hartshorne, William Gemmell Cochran, Øystein Ore, Dmitri Anosov, and Rudy Rucker.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1832, Mary Everest Boole ranks 83. Before her are William Thomas Blanford, Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero, Kolos Ferenc Vaszary, Zsófia Torma, Octave Chanute, and Juris Alunāns. After her are Isaac Israel Hayes, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Lizardo Montero Flores, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, John Brown Gordon, and Henry Seebohm. Among people deceased in 1916, Mary Everest Boole ranks 126. Before her are Georgios Theotokis, Cleveland Abbe, Daniel Oliver, Alexander Voeikov, Charles Booth, and Guido Romano. After her are Lorenzo Latorre, Tom Clarke, Béla Békessy, Samu Fóti, Joseph Plunkett, and Seán Mac Diarmada.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Mary Everest Boole ranks 4,011 out of 7,765. Before her are Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (1857), Miles Dempsey (1896), Mary Moser (1744), Jeanette Winterson (1959), Alex Salmond (1954), and Mark Herman (1954). After her are John Loder (1898), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Carole Shelley (1939), Theo Walcott (1989), Juliet Mills (1941), and Michael Frayn (1933).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Mary Everest Boole ranks 84. Before her are Charles Howard Hinton (1853), Douglas Hartree (1897), E. T. Whittaker (1873), William Henry Young (1863), Benjamin Robins (1707), and Simon Donaldson (1957). After her are William Hopkins (1793), William Gemmell Cochran (1909), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Richard Taylor (1962), James Whitbread Lee Glaisher (1848), and George Peacock (1791).

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