The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age by Nahin, Paul J.

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

How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolution Boolean algebra, also called Boolean...
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The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age by Nahin, Paul J.

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

€25,81

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

€25,81
Author: Paul J. Nahin
Format: Paperback
Language: English

How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolution

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? 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.

Author: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/04/2017
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780691176000

About the Author
Paul J. Nahin is the author of many bestselling popular math books, including Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt, In Praise of Simple Physics, and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.

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