The logician and the engineer : how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age / Paul J. Nahin.
Nahin, Paul J.| Call Number | 510.922 |
| Author | Nahin, Paul J., author. |
| Title | The logician and the engineer : how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age / Paul J. Nahin. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Notes | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Summary | Boolean 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? This text combines engaging problems and a colourful 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. |
| Subject | Boole, George, 1815-1864. Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001. Logicians Great Britain Biography. Electrical engineers United States Biography. COMPUTER LOGIC. LOGIC CIRCUITS. |
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| Summary | Boolean 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? This text combines engaging problems and a colourful 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. |
| Notes | Previously issued in print: 2017. |
| Subject | Boole, George, 1815-1864. Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001. Logicians Great Britain Biography. Electrical engineers United States Biography. COMPUTER LOGIC. LOGIC CIRCUITS. |
| Multimedia |