A historical teaching module on `The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics': Boolean algebra and Shannon circuits

DOI10.1080/17498430.2014.874869MaRDI QIDQ4981817zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Uffe Thomas Jankvist

Publication date 25 June 2014

Published in BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2014.874869

zbMATH Keywords

educationhistory of mathematicsBooleShannon, Hamming

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics education (97-03) History in mathematics education (97A30) Objectives and goals of mathematics teaching (97D30)

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Cites work

• A teaching module on the history of public-key cryptography and RSA
• The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences. Richard courant lecture in mathematical sciences delivered at New York University, May 11, 1959

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