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NEW RESIDENTS at 36 Sunday’s Well Road in Cork city will wake up each morning to much the same view as one George Boole - the 19th century mathematician credited with facilitating the modern day computer.

The house faces full-south over the River Lee, the cricket grounds, tennis and boating club and on to UCC’s main quadrangle and Boole library: George Boole was UCC’s (then Queens College Cork) first professor of mathematics, and the college recalls his legacy.

Boolean algebra is credited with facilitating modern computer programming, telephone switching and other IT applications.