Mary Everest Boole
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. Her life is of interest to
feminists as an example of how women made careers in an
academic system that did not welcome them.
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