The Logician and the Engineer
How George Boole and Claude Shannon Created the Information Age
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November 15, 2012
Every electrical engineering student has heard about the work of George Boole and Claude Shannon. As Nahin (electrical engineering, emeritus, Univ. of New Hampshire; Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt: And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics) explains, their work will forever be tied together even though they never met. (In fact, Shannon was born more than 50 years after Boole died.) However, without Boole's mathematical analysis, Shannon could have never made his advances in switching theory. Likewise, without Shannon's work, Boole's theories would have remained largely unknown and unused. Without either man's work, the world would not have entered the Information Age. Part biography, part history, and part a review of basic information theory, the book does an excellent job of fitting these interlocking elements together. VERDICT Nahin's work is best suited to students and faculty in electrical engineering, mathematics, and information science. It is also recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of information technology, but those without a basic understanding of circuits will find it difficult.--William Baer, Georgia Inst. of Technology Lib., Atlanta
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