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RT @StA_Maths_Stats@twitter.com

On this day in 1844, submitted a paper to the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. One referee rejected it, the other recommended a special prize. This paper was the first mathematics paper to receive the Royal Medal from the Royal Society.

The paper was "On a General Method in Analysis"

jstor.org/stable/108362

Source: twitter.com/StA_Maths_Stats/st

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Irish Philosophy · @Irishphilosophy
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Open media

, one of the founders of the computer age and the first Professor of Mathematics at
@UCC, died in Cork in 1864.

, who made efforts to have Boole’s papers printed, said that "An Investigation of the Laws of Thought" as “the work in which pure mathematics was discovered”. In it Boole applied his mathematics to the philosophy of and others as a practical demonstration.
irishphilosophy.com/2014/12/08

Bio: ucc.ie/en/heritage/historicpeo

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Mention of Darwin's letters being available online reminds me of the letter sent to from , widow of , asking what were the theological implications of .

He replied “ I cannot see how the belief that all organic beings including man have been genetically derived from some simple being, instead of having been separately created bears on your difficulties”.

Darwin seems to have found the whole thing quite odd

irishphilosophy.com/2018/11/24

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