George Boole Memorial & Moon Crater Boole & Asteroid 17734 - Lincoln, UK - Extraterrestrial Locations on Waymarking.com

The plaque is on a raised platform in the main shopping area in Lincoln city centre and was placed there in 2015 which was the 200th anniversary of his birth.

LINCOLN MAN GEORGE BOOLE INVENTED THE BINARY LOGIC AT THE HEART OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY. HE COULD BE DESCRIBED AS "THE MAN WHO MADE' THE DNA OF DIGITALITY" HE WAS BORN HERE IN SILVER STREET, BETWEEN BANK STREET AND FREE SCHOOL LANE. MUCH LATER, HE MOVED UPHILL TO POTTERGATE, NEAR LINCOLN CATHEDRAL. WHERE HIS HOUSE STILL STANDS. THE CATHEDRAL HAS ITS OWN MEMORIAL WINDOW FOR HIM. BOOLE WAS A SELF-TAUGHT PRODIGY IN SCIENCE AND LANGUAGES, YET IN HIS YOUTH HE NEVER GAINED ANY FORMAL QUALIFICATIONS. HE BECAME A SCHOOL TEACHER AT 15 AND RAN HIS OWN SCHOOL BY AGE 19. FROM 15 TO 25, HE WAS THE SOLE PROVIDER FOR HIS WHOLE FAMILY.

AT 28 HE WON THE PRESTIGIOUS ROYAL IN 1847 HE PUBLISHED HIS "MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS OF LOGIC" WHICH GAVE THE WORLD "BOOLEAN LOGIC". IN 1849, AGED 33, HE WAS APPOINTED THE FIRST PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS FOR QUEEN'S COLLEGE CORK IN IRELAND. HE DIED THERE, AGED 49. ONE OF THE CRATERS ON THE MOON IS NAMED AFTER HIM. ALMOST A CENTURY AFTER BOOLE'S LOGIC WAS PUBLISHED, THE FATHERS OF ELECTRONIC COMPUTING, ALAN TURING AND CLAUDE SHANNON, AGREED THAT BOOLE'S LOGIC SHOULD BE THEIR FOUNDATION.                  THIS MEMORIAL ERECTED 2015

1815 GEORGE BOOLE 1864

Boole is a lunar impact crater that lies along the northwestern limb of the Moon, to the northwest of the crater Gerard. At this location it is viewed nearly from the side, and is very oblong in shape due to foreshortening. The crater formation is nearly circular, however, with a wide inner wall that has been worn and rounded due to subsequent impacts. It is named after George Boole.

To the north of Boole is the crater Cremona, and to the southwest are Paneth and Smoluchowski. The eroded and somewhat distorted satellite crater Boole E is attached to the southern rim, forming a saddle-shaped valley between the two formations. The interior floor of Boole is relatively flat, and marked only by tiny craterlets. There is a small craterlet on the floor next to the southwest rim, and a tiny crater along the western inner wall.

The surface along the western face of Boole is pock-marked by a multitude of small craterlets that run in a northerly direction towards Brianchon. A sequence of these impacts forms a short catena, or crater chain, near the western rim of Boole.

Asteroid Boole 17734 was discovered in 1997 by Paul G. Comba, an Italian-American computer scientist, an amateur astronomer and a prolific discoverer of minor planets.

After retirement in 1991, Comba moved to Prescott, Arizona, where he built the Prescott Observatory (obs. code: 684) There he specialized in discovering asteroids and has been recognized for the discovery of 644 numbered objects as of September 2013.

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