The engineer's " peculiar sort of frustration " with Shannon's Boolean algebra.

Maarten Bullynck (1)

1 Centre de recherches historiques : histoire des pouvoirs, savoirs et sociétés

Shannon's 1938 did not got integrated immediately into the circuit designers' practice, a number of circumstances prevented straightforward application. Instead it took about a decade before it was made practical. This paper sketches this slow appropriation.

Mots clés: History of Computing; Relay Circuits; Boolean Logic

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Maarten Bullynck. The engineer's " peculiar sort of frustration " with Shannon's Boolean algebra.: Tensions between theory and practice in designing switching circuits during the 1940s. 2016. ⟨halshs-01541609⟩