2008 was published in 2011 as The First Twenty-Five Years of the Superbrain by Diarmuid Early & Des MacHale. Selected books Books by Des MacHale include: 2022 Comic Sections Plus, Logic Press, 2020 The Poetry of George Boole, Logic Press, 2020 Number and Letter Puzzles, Logic Press, 2018 New Light on George Boole (with Yvonne Cohen), Cork University Press, 2015 Mathematical Lateral Thinking Puzzles co-author Paul Sloane (author) (Sterling Publishing), 2014 The First Twenty-Five Years of the Superbrain (with Diarmuid Early) United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, 2014 The Life and Work of George Boole : a Prelude to the Digital Age, Cork University Press, 2004 Picture The quiet man : an illustrated celebration, Appletree, 1995 Best Irish Humorous Quotations, Mercier, 1993 Comic Sections: The Book of Mathematical Jokes, Humour, Wit and Wisdom, Boole Press, 1989 The World's Best Maggie Thatcher Jokes, Angus & Robertson, 1987 The Book of Irish Bull: Better than All the Udders, Mercier, 1985 George Boole: His Life and Work, Boole Press, Awards and honours On George Boole Day, 2 November 2015, University College Cork awarded MacHale an honorary doctorate of literature in recognition of his contributions to scholarship on Boole. On 15 October 2016 Maths Week Ireland presented MacHale with the inaugural "Raising Public Awareness of Maths" award. References External links 1946 births 20th-century Irish mathematicians People from Castlebar Academics of University College Cork Alumni of the University of Galway Alumni of Keele University Anti-smoking activists Living people Irish health activists