Book review of: P. J. Nahin, The logician and the engineer. How George Boole and Claude Shannon created the information age.

DOI10.1137/130973417zbMATH Open1333.00014OpenAlexW4238271381MaRDI QIDQ5890575FDOQ5890575

Robert E. jun. O'Malley

Publication date: 13 April 2016

Published in: SIAM Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1137/130973417

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Information theory (general) (94A15) Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Coding theorems (Shannon theory) (94A24) External book reviews (00A17) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to information and communication theory (94-01) History of information and communication theory (94-03)

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