ABSTRACT
English mathematician George Boole (1815-1864) was one of the founders of the principles of logic. In his honor, the methods used are called Boolean logic. In the context of modern computing, Claude Shannon was the most infl uential scientist who contributed to the theory of logic. In 1938, as a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he submitted his master’s thesis that showed how electronic circuits could be used to perform logic. Ten years later Shannon published the paper, “A Mathematical Theory of Communication,” which revolutionized scientists’ understanding of the concept of information.
