The logician and the engineer : how George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age
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| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
Palo Alto, Calif : ebrary, 2011. |
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| Shrnutí: | 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) an |
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