I think Shannon's 1937 masters thesis linking boolean algebra and electronics was the most important theoretical paper for computers: https://en.m.wikipedia.or

I think Shannon's 1937 masters thesis linking boolean algebra and electronics was the most important theoretical paper for computers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay_and_Switching_Circuits https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Symbolic_Analysis_of_Relay...