Ebook: The Logician and the Engineer: How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age

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? This text combines engaging problems and a colourful 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.