The logician and the engineer : how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age
Nahin, Paul J.2013
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In this work, Paul Nahin combines engaging problems and a colourful 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.
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2013.
Collation:
xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780691151007 (hbk)
Dewey class:
510.922510.922NAHR510.922NAH
Language:
English
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BRN:
1072126