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.
| ISBN: | 9780691176000 |
| Publication date: | 4th April 2017 |
| Author: | Paul Nahin |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
History of mathematics Philosophy of mathematics Biography: science, technology and medicine Computer science Electrical engineering Information technology: general topics History of engineering and technology Information architecture Information theory |