[Vision2020] Tomorrow's storm ...

[Joe Campbell]

I wish I had heard this story before I walked over to teach class! Only
kidding. It stopped raining by then.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:04:59 Art Deco wrote:
> > Kenneth Marcy writes:
> >
> > "So, at present, the biggest danger from being out in the rain is getting
> > one's clothing soaked, which, in an unattended worst case, might result
> in
> > a Boolean catastrophe, but not radiation sickness."
> >
> > Boolean catastrophe?  How could a swarm of logical errors result solely
> > from getting soak?  It can easily happen by going to church or a cult
> > gathering, but not usually by going out into the rain.
>
> George Boole was the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College,
> Cork,
> Ireland. On a December day he walked two miles in a rain storm to arrive at
> a
> class at which he lectured still wearing his wet clothing. He caught a cold
> and a fever, which worsened to a pleural effusion, that caused his death 8
> December 1864, at age 49.
>
> George Boole was a precocious youth who, after being tutored in Latin by a
> family friend, taught himself Greek. His fluency in French, German and
> Italian
> won him employment as an assistant teacher at 16 to help alleviate family
> financial difficulties. By age 20, he had opened his own school in
> Lincolnshire,
> England. He published his first mathematical paper at age 24. In 1849, at
> age
> 34, he was appointed to his professorship at the then new school. He
> married
> in 1855, and fathered five daughters before his untimely death.
>
>
> Ken
>
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