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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: logician and the engineer
    sub title: how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age
  name:
    name part: Nahin, Paul J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ebrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: 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. 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 information 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 development of mathematical logic and data transmission. Nahin takes readers from fundamental concepts to a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of how a modern digital machine such as the computer is constructed. Nahin also delves into the newest ideas in quantum mechanics and thermodynamics in order to explore computing's possible 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 modern world.
  table of contents: George Boole and Claude Shannon : two mini-biographies -- Boolean algebra -- Logical switching circuits -- Boole, Shannon, and probability -- Some combinatorial design logic examples -- Sequential-state digital circuits -- Turing machines -- Beyond Boole and Shannon -- For the future : the anti-amphibological machine.
  note: Paul J. Nahin.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Boole, George
      name part: 1815-1864
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shannon, Claude Elwood
      name part: 1916-2001
  subject:
    topic: Logicians
    geographic: Great Britain
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Electrical engineers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Computer logic
  subject:
    topic: MATHEMATICS
    topic: History & Philosophy
  classification: QA76.9.L63 N34 2012eb
  classification: 510.92/2
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    title info:
      title: Logician and the engineer
    name:
      name part: Nahin, Paul J.
    origin info:
      publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2012]
    identifier: (DLC) 2011053127
    identifier: (OCoLC)775662187
  identifier: 9781400844654 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1400844657 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780691151007
  identifier: 0691151008
  identifier: 1283578786
  identifier: 9781283578783
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
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    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 121204
    record change date: 20250816210454.4
    record identifier: in00002787589
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng