Mathematical Imagination and the Preparation of the Child forScience: Sparks from Mary Everest Boole

Paola Magrone () and Ana Millán Gasca ()
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Paola Magrone: Roma Tre University, Department of Architecture
Ana Millán Gasca: Roma Tre University, Department of Education

A chapter in Imagine Math 7, 2020, pp 347-362 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mary Everest (1832–1901) lived in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria, at a time when higher education was foreclosed to women, one of the causes for the lack of women scientists. She spent some years of her childhood in France and received her first mathematical education from a French teacher who aroused her interest in science. However, she, like others, managed to train herself, thanks to her great determination and the network of contacts which she had access to during her youth. In 1855 she married George Boole (1815–1864), himself a self-taught mathematician, who completed his younger bride and then wife’s mathematical training, also involving her in the writing of his treatise on differential equations.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42653-8_21

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