Boolean Logic: From Reasoning to Relays
In short: How George Boole's 1847 argument that logic belongs with mathematics waited decades until Claude Shannon applied it to switching circuits, giving digital circuits their theoretical underpinnings.
A 1:25 short film in the series “From Fingers to Qubits”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Encyclopaedia Britannica, “George Boole | Facts, Biography, Death, Education, & Books | Britannica”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “History of logic - Aristotle, Syllogism, Deduction | Britannica”; Springer (Springer Nature), academic book chapter 'Leibniz and the Calculus Ratiocinator', “Leibniz and the Calculus Ratiocinator”; Academia.edu (user upload of a 1938 AIEE paper by Claude E. Shannon), “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits By CLAUDE E. SHANNON AIEE vol”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits | thesis by Shannon | Britannica”; Computer History Museum (CHM Revolution), “How Do Digital Computers “Think”? - CHM Revolution”; base-2.dev (Binary 101 educational site), “Electrical Simplicity: Why Computers Use Binary”.
Sources used in this film
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — George Boole | Facts, Biography, Death, Education, & Books | Britannica · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — History of logic - Aristotle, Syllogism, Deduction | Britannica · View →
- Springer (Springer Nature), academic book chapter 'Leibniz and the Calculus Ratiocinator' — Leibniz and the Calculus Ratiocinator · View →
- Academia.edu (user upload of a 1938 AIEE paper by Claude E. Shannon) — A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits By CLAUDE E. SHANNON AIEE vol · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits | thesis by Shannon | Britannica · View →
- Computer History Museum (CHM Revolution) — How Do Digital Computers “Think”? - CHM Revolution · View →
- base-2.dev (Binary 101 educational site) — Electrical Simplicity: Why Computers Use Binary · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: George Boole | Facts, Biography, Death, Education, & Books | Britannica
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: History of logic - Aristotle, Syllogism, Deduction | Britannica
- Also: Springer (Springer Nature), academic book chapter 'Leibniz and the Calculus Ratiocinator': Leibniz and the Calculus Ratiocinator
- Also: Academia.edu (user upload of a 1938 AIEE paper by Claude E. Shannon): A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits By CLAUDE E. SHANNON AIEE vol
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits | thesis by Shannon | Britannica
- Also: Computer History Museum: How Do Digital Computers “Think”? - CHM Revolution
- Also: base-2.dev (Binary 101 educational site): Electrical Simplicity: Why Computers Use Binary
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