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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Nahin, Paul J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 halftones. 41 line illus. 25 tables.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400844654; 9783110442502
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400844654?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Paul J. Nahin.

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.