Alicia Boole Stott

Biography of Alicia Boole Stott, born on June 8th, 1860 with Cork in Ireland. Died on December 17th, 1940 in England.

Alicia Boole was the third girl of George Boole (already itself mathematician) and of Mary Everest Boole. George Boole died when Alicia was only four years old. It was partly high in England by her grandmother, then in Liege by its great-uncle. At twelve years, it joined her mother and her sisters in London. Although it did not receive any conventional teaching in mathematics (it observed the whole of small cubes out of wooden of her brother Charles Howard Hinton), it had a geometrical great power of visualization in space. The old one seventeen years until its death, it was interested in the Polytope S (term which it created to describe a four-dimensional convex solid), worked on models out of paperboard and made several important discoveries on this subject. She worked as secretary close to Liverpool then met and married Walter Stott in 1890. She collaborated with Peter Hendrik Schoute, professor at the University of Groningue (1846-1923) which persuaded it to publish its results in reviews published in Amsterdam in 1900 and 1910.

The university of Groningue honoured it by inviting it to attend the celebrations of tercentenary of the university and by allotting an honorary doctorate in 1914 to him.

As from 1930, she collaborated with Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (1907-2003).

Article translated from the English: Biography At the MacTutor History off the mathematics File of J. OJ' Connor and E.F Robertson (January 1997).

For a knowledge more, one article of Tony Philips, Stony Brook University: http://www.ams.org/featurecolumn/archive/boole.html

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