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The logician and the engineer : how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age / Paul J. Nahin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nahin, Paul J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Boole, George, 1815-1864.
- Boole, George.
- Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001.
- Shannon, Claude Elwood.
- Logicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Logicians.
- Electrical engineers--United States--Biography.
- Electrical engineers.
- Computer logic.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (244 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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? 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. What You Need To Know to Read This Book
- 2. Introduction
- 3. George Boole and Claude Shannon
- 4. Boolean Algebra
- 5. Logic Switching Circuits
- 6. Boole, Shannon, and Probability
- 7. Some Combinatorial Logic Examples
- 8. Sequential-State Digital Circuits
- 9. Turing Machines
- 10. Beyond Boole and Shannon
- Epilogue. For the Future: The Anti-Amphibological Machine
- Appendix. Fundamental Electric Circuit Concepts
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9786613891235
- 9781283578783
- 1283578786
- 9781400844654
- 1400844657
- OCLC:
- 811563595
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