Who were the real George and Mary?
George Boole was an Irish mathematician who lived in the nineteenth century; he invented Boolean algebra, the foundation of modern computing. Boolean logic is the reasoning behind his algebra, in his book The Laws of Thought he suggested a psychological model of reasoning based on his logic. GaM uses the Boolean model to justify the limitation of the drives to four.? The characters of GaM were inspired by the story of George Boole’s untimely death in 1864 while he was in the care of his wife Mary Everest. George walked home after a busy day teaching at Cork College, Ireland when it started to rain. It was a long walk so George caught a cold and stayed at home. Mary believed in curing ailments using their own causes, so if George got sick from getting wet then water would cure him. Mary treated George by drenching him with buckets of water, which caused the ultimate death of the mathematical genius by pneumonia.
