George Boole: Cork to honour man who made reading this story possible   

The man whose maths powers every webpage, every smartphone and every music player is to be celebrated in Cork, the birthplace of Boolean algebra, two centuries after his own birth.

Although born in Lincoln, England in 1815, George Boole was first professor of maths at what would become University College Cork, from 1849.

It was during his time there that he wrote An Investigation of The Laws of Thought, the content of which only really took off a century later.