Logician and the Engineer

<p><b>How two pioneers of math and technology ushered in the computer revolution</b> <p/>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 <i>The Logician and the Engineer</i> 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.</p>