The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age
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Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in all we use--from our computers and cars, to our kitchen gadgets and home appliances. How did a law of mathematics established in the Victorian era come to be the basis for such incredible technological achievements a century later? In The Logician and the Engineer, best-selling beloved math writer Paul Nahin combines appealing problems and a colorful historical narrative to tell the remarkable story of how two men in dissimilar eras--mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) and electrical engineer and pioneering data theorist Claude Shannon (1916-2001)--advanced Boolean logic and became founding fathers of the electronic communications age.
Presenting the dual biographies of Boole and Shannon, Nahin examines the history of Boole's innovative ideas, and considers how they led to Shannon's groundbreaking work on electrical relay circuits and data theory. Along the way, Nahin presents logic problems for readers to solve and talks about the contributions of such key players as Georg Cantor, Tibor Rado, and Marvin Minsky--as well as the crucial role of Alan Turing's "Turing machine"--in the amelioration of mathematical logic and data transmission. Nahin takes readers from fundamental concepts to a deeper and more sophisticated insight of how a contemporary digital motor such as the computer is constructed. Nahin also delves into the latest ideas in measure mechanics and thermodynamics in order to survey computing's inherent limitations in the twenty-first century and beyond.
The Logician and the Engineer shows how a form of mathematical logic and the innovations of two men paved the way for the digital technology of the contemporary world.
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