The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691176000)

How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolution

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.

Author: Paul Nahin
ISBN-10: 0691176000
ISBN-13: 9780691176000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2017
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.70d