The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age - Couverture rigide

Nahin, Paul J.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691151008 ISBN 13 : 9780691151007

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from 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 eras--mathematician and philosopher George Boole and electrical engineer and pioneering information theorist Claude Shannon--advanced 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul J. Nahin is the author of many best-selling popular math books, including Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt, Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula, and An Imaginary Tale (all Princeton). He is professor emeritus of electrical engineering at the University of New Hampshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691151008
• ISBN 13: 9780691151007
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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