The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

By: Paul J. Nahin

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Synopsis: How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolutionBoolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use—from our computers and cars, to home appliances. How did a system of mathematics established in the Victorian era become the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, Paul Nahin combines engaging problems and a colorful historical narrative to tell the remarkable story of how two men in different eras—mathematician and philosopher George Boole and electrical engineer and pioneering information theorist Claude Shannon—advanced Boolean logic and became founding fathers of the electronic communications age. Nahin takes readers from fundamental concepts to a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of modern digital machines, in order to explore computing and its possible limitations in the twenty-first century and beyond.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 248 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781400844654
Related ISBNs:: 9780691151007, 9780691176000
Publisher:: Princeton University Press
Date of Addition:: 02/08/24
Copyrighted By:: Princeton University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Science, Biographies and Memoirs, Computers and Internet, Technology, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.