The Logician and the Engineer : : How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age / / 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 lat...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 2 halftones. 41 line illus. 25 tables. |
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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 |
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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? 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. |
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. |