Editing George Boole (section)

== Honours and awards ==
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In 1844, Boole's paper "On a General Method in Analysis" won the first gold prize for mathematics awarded by the [[Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age |last=MacHale |first=Desmond |page=97}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Keith Medal]] by the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]] in 1855<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8735503 |title=Keith Awards 1827–1890 |journal=Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh |date=January 1892 |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=767–770 |publisher=Cambridge Journals Online |doi=10.1017/S0080456800037984 |s2cid=251574207 |access-date=29 November 2014 |archive-date=20 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820015246/http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online |url-status=live}}</ref> and was elected a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1857|Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1857]].<ref name=SED /> He received [[honorary degrees]] of [[LL.D.]] from the [[University of Dublin]] and the [[University of Oxford]].<ref>[[Ivor Grattan-Guinness]], [[Gérard Bornet]], ''George Boole: Selected manuscripts on logic and its philosophy'' (1997), p. xiv; [https://books.google.com/books?id=pzg7UFsIVJIC&pg=PR14 Google Books] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522113300/https://books.google.com/books?id=pzg7UFsIVJIC&pg=PR14|date=22 May 2016}}.</ref>