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The logician and the engineer : how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age

by Paul J. Nahin

An exploration of how Victorian mathematician George Boole and electrical engineer Claude Shannon advanced Boolean logic, transforming it into the foundation of modern digital computing and electronic communications.

Accession 12094 ISBN 9780691151007 Publisher Princeton University Press
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