“He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than I; he thought logically and then acted based on the conclusions of logical thinking. Whereas most of us, I suppose, do the opposite: we make a gut decision, then build an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense. This quote from Julian Barnes epitomizes why George Boole was my choice for my mathematician. I've always been fascinated by logic and reasoning, perhaps because I constantly find myself in arguments that I prefer to call friendly debates. The first thing I did to determine my mathematician was to turn to Amazon to find a good short book that I might find interesting from any of the options. After coming across “The Mathematical Analysis of Logic: Being an Essay Toward a Calculus of Deductive Reasoning,” I realized I had found my mathematician. George Boole was a highly influential logical mathematician who transcended mathematics and connected it to everything around us. Boole was born in 1815 in Lincolnshire, England. His father was a shoemaker by trade but known for his passion for reading about science and technology, in this case the apple did not fall far from the tree. Coming from a family of limited means, George did not receive what one might call a first-rate formal education, but he gained a great deal of knowledge from his father and the books he later read . Boole started working at 16 as a school teacher and opened his own school at 19. In 1849 he became a professor at the new Queens University in Cork, Ireland. From a young age he was expected to help support his family, and in doing so he became an esteemed mathematician and logician. In 1855 he married Mary Everest, the daughter...... middle of paper......in symbolic logic. George died too soon to truly see the full effects of his discovery. Technology has truly been the great benefactor of Mr. Boole's work. Boolean algebra was used for electrical switching circuits in the 1930s, it is the basis of all modern computer logic. He also has a research center named after him at University College Cork. As we look back on the impact of Mr. George Boole, we see how much of an impact he had on the world we live in today. We saw above why George was such an influential mathematician, from being the first mathematician to win a Royal Society gold medal to developing theories that would shape modern technology and computer logic. Coming from modest means, Boole embodies how will and knowledge can overcome poverty to become one of the greatest mathematicians and logicians of all time..