“He had a better mind and a stricter temperament than I; he thought logically and then acted on the conclusion of the logical thought. While most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an instinctive decision, then build a reasoning infrastructure to justify it. And we call the result common sense." This quote, by Julian Barnes, embodies why I chose George Boole as my mathematician. I have always been fascinated by logic and reasoning, perhaps because I constantly find myself in discussions that I prefer to call friendly debates. The first thing I did to determine my math was turn to Amazon to find a good short book that I could find interesting from any of the options. After I came across “The Mathematical Analysis of Logic: Being a Sage towards a Deductive Reasoning Calculus” I knew I had found my mathematician. George Boole was a very influential mathematician logician who transcended mathematics and connected it to everything around us. Boole was born in 1815 in Lincolnshire, England. His father was a shoemaker by trade but known to have a passion for reading about science and technology, in this case the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Coming from a family of little means, George did not receive what one might call a first-rate formal education, but he gained a great deal of knowledge from his father and the books he continued to read. Boole began working at the age of 16 as a school teacher and opened his own school at 19. In 1849 he became a professor at the newly formed Queens University in Cork, Ireland. He was expected at an early age to help support his family and in the process became an esteemed mathematician and logician. In 1855 he married Mary Everest, the daughter... in the center of the card... in symbolic logic. George died too early to really see the full effects of his discovery, technology was indeed the great benefactor of Mr Boole's work. Boolean algebra was used for electrical switch circuits in the 1930s, it is the basis of all modern computer logic. He also has a research center named after him at University College Cork. Looking back at the impact of Mr. George Boole, we can see how great an impact he had on the world we live in today. We saw above why George was such an influential mathematician: from being the first mathematician to win a gold medal from the Royal Society, to developing theories that would shape modern technology and computer logic. Coming from modest means, Boole embodies how sheer will and knowledge can overcome poverty to become one of the greatest mathematicians and logicians of all time.