Logician and the Engineer
Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and 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, best-selling popular math writer 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 (1815-1864) and electrical engineer and pioneering information theorist Claude Shannon (1916-2001)--advanced Boolean logic and became founding fathers of the electronic communications age.
| Autor: | Nahin, Paul J. |
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| EAN: | 9780691151007 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 248 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Princeton University Press |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 08.11.2012 |
| Untertitel: | How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age |
| Schlagworte: | Boolesche Algebra |
| Größe: | 233 |
| Gewicht: | 536 g |
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