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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.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Mathematical foundations

• Full title: Logician and the Engineer
• Author: Paul J. Nahin
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• EAN: 9780691176000
• ISBN: 0691176000
• ID: 14433380
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Weight: 396 g
• Dimensions: 154 × 234 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 04. April 2017

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