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| Apr 3, 2017 at 9:40 | comment | added | Olga | yes, the Mum was cool, Mary Everest Boole, she wrote some books about mathematical education, and all the Boole sisters (there were 5 of them!) were amazing. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 5:43 | comment | added | Tim Porter | The whole family were, let us say, unconventional. (I used to teach at Cork so heard a lot of stories about them.) | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 17:22 | comment | added | Olga | Alicia Boole has to be mentioned here (especially since her father was and she did not!). She was living a life of a housewife, studying regular polytopes in dimension 4 (analogues of Platonic bodies in dimension +1), and she was also raising a family at the same time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Boole_Stott | |
| Jun 12, 2013 at 14:49 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Jun 12, 2013 at 12:38 | history | answered | Tim Porter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |