Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: November 2, 1815 - December 8, 1864
Birthday: November 2
Death: December 8
I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order, or that that order has been, to a great extent, necessary -- being determined, either by steps of logical deduction, or by the successive introduction of new ideas and conceptions, when the time for their evolution had arrived.
source: George Boole (1872). “A Treatise on Differential Equations”, p.5
topic: Order, Ideas, Doubt, Mathematical Analysis