I like the writing style of this essay! "During his masters at MIT, he was tasked with studying the “differential analyzer”. The analyzer—a steampunk vision of

I like the writing style of this essay! "During his masters at MIT, he was tasked with studying the “differential analyzer”. The analyzer—a steampunk vision of electromechanical relays and ad hoc circuitry—was built to solve differential equations (ironically one of Boole’s main interests as a mathematician) and pioneered by the brother of Lord Kelvin (one of Boole’s close friends). Shannon’s fitting tribute to Boole was to deconstruct the messy circuitry of the analyzer and systematically resynthesize it with Boolean algebra. In the process, he invented modern digital circuitry"