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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Nahin, Paul J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Logician and the Engineer : How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age / Paul J. Nahin. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (248 p.) : 2 halftones. 41 line illus. 25 tables. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Computer logic Electronic books. Computer logic. Electrical engineers Biography United States. Electrical engineers United States Biography. Logic circuits. Logicians Great Britain Biography. MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy. bisacsh A Mathematical Theory of Communication. Aristotelian logic. Boolean algebra. Boolean analysis. Boolean functions. Boolean logic. Claude Shannon. George Boole. NOR latch. The Language Clarifier. Turing machines. biography. communications age. computers. computing machines. conditional probability. digital circuitry. digital machine design. digital technology. electrical engineer. electromagnetic relays. electronic communications. error correction. error detection. flip-flops. information transmission. legalese. mathematical logic. mathematicians. mathematics. physics. relays. sequential-state problems. sets. switches. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691151007 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400844654?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400844654 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400844654.jpg |
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