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George Boole’s Algebra of Logic

Lily became famous later as the author of The Gadfly, a novel inspired

by her short but passionate love affair with the man who became known

as Sidney Riley and whose incredible life formed the basis for a television

mini-series called Riley: Ace of Spies. With irony piled upon irony, Riley,

a fervent anti-communist, was executed in Russia by the Bolsheviks, while

his lover’s novel, its true inspiration unknown, became required reading

for Russian schoolchildren. In 1955 Pravda reported to its Moscow readers

that the author of The Gadfly was alive and well in New York, and she

received from Russia a royalty check for $15,000. She died five years later

at the age of 96.

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George Boole’s Algebra of Logic

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