I wish I had heard this story before I walked over to teach class! Only kidding. It stopped raining by then.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Kenneth Marcy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Wednesday 30 March 2011 07:04:59 Art Deco wrote:<br>
> Kenneth Marcy writes:<br>
><br>
> "So, at present, the biggest danger from being out in the rain is getting<br>
> one's clothing soaked, which, in an unattended worst case, might result in<br>
> a Boolean catastrophe, but not radiation sickness."<br>
><br>
> Boolean catastrophe? How could a swarm of logical errors result solely<br>
> from getting soak? It can easily happen by going to church or a cult<br>
> gathering, but not usually by going out into the rain.<br>
<br>
George Boole was the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork,<br>
Ireland. On a December day he walked two miles in a rain storm to arrive at a<br>
class at which he lectured still wearing his wet clothing. He caught a cold<br>
and a fever, which worsened to a pleural effusion, that caused his death 8<br>
December 1864, at age 49.<br>
<br>
George Boole was a precocious youth who, after being tutored in Latin by a<br>
family friend, taught himself Greek. His fluency in French, German and Italian<br>
won him employment as an assistant teacher at 16 to help alleviate family<br>
financial difficulties. By age 20, he had opened his own school in Lincolnshire,<br>
England. He published his first mathematical paper at age 24. In 1849, at age<br>
34, he was appointed to his professorship at the then new school. He married<br>
in 1855, and fathered five daughters before his untimely death.<br>
<br>
<br>
Ken<br>
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