No bull: UCC academic a quiet man of literary taste

Des MacHale, UCC emeritus professor of mathematics, is not your usual fusty, serious academic.

His groundbreaking tome, The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age, will later today see him receive an honorary doctorate, on the bicentenary date of Boole’s birth.

“The world has finally come to realise the genius of George Boole and the United Nations’ declaration this year was a major achievement,” he says.