6/11/14***NO REPRO FEE***Pictured is Dr. Michael Murphy, President of University

College Cork with John Giles aged 10 and Liadan Garner aged 10 at the launch of the University’s year-long celebrations in 2015 to mark the bicentenary of George Boole (1815-1864), a self-taught mathematical genius who was UCC's first professor of mathematics and who is widely regarded as one of the most significant pioneers of the information age.The bicentennial celebrations will span a wide mix of ambitious local, national and international projects and events that will mark the contributions of Boole in the fields of mathematics, computer science and engineering, but will also establish a series of legacy initiatives that will serve to inspire and fund the next generation of talent in these disciplines.These include the restoration of No.5 Grenville Place, Boole’s former home in Cork where he wrote his masterpiece ‘An Investigation of the Laws of Thought’ (published 1854) which centred on his famous theory of logic and probabilities. Pic: Marc O'Sullivan