Interesting read. Here's a link to "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits", Claude Shannon's M.S. 1937 thesis at UMich: http://dspace.mit.edu/han

Interesting read. Here's a link to "A symbolic analysis of relay and switching circuits", Claude Shannon's M.S. 1937 thesis at UMich: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173 http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/11173 This thesis paper introduced Boole's work into electrical engineering (tying Boolean logic directly into digital circuit design & analysis. contrary to the prevailing ad-hoc design of the era), as per the parent link. It represents one of the two or three veritable masterpieces Shannon left this world; the other(s) being his seminal works in Information Theory, and Cryptography (were it to be considered separately). Edit: thesis date 1936->1937 [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_a...