num_pages: 248
description: How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolutionBoolean algebra also called Boolean logic is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we usefrom 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 erasmathematician and philosopher George Boole and electrical engineer and pioneering information theorist Claude Shannonadvanced 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.
language: English
title: The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age
publisher: Princeton University Press