The logician and the engineer
Subtitle: how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age
By: Paul J. Nahin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780691151007
Subjects: Logicians; Computer logic; Electrical engineers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: George Boole and Claude Shannon : two mini-biographies; title: Boolean algebra; title: Logical switching circuits; title: Boole, Shannon, and probability; title: Some combinatorial design logic examples; title: Sequential-state digital circuits; title: Turing machines; title: Beyond Boole and Shannon; title: For the future : the anti-amphibological machine.