Great Formal Machinery Works Plato Jan von
Great Formal Machinery Works Plato Jan von The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics. Von…
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Great Formal Machinery Works Plato Jan von
The information age owes its existence to a little-known but crucial development, the theoretical study of logic and the foundations of mathematics. Von Plato shows how the idea of a formal proof in mathematics emerged gradually in the second half of the nineteenth century, hand in hand with the notion of a formal process of The Great Formal Machinery Works draws on original sources and rare archival materials to trace the history of the theories of deduction and computation that laid the logical foundations for the digital revolution.Jan von Plato examines the contributions of figures such as Aristotle; the nineteenth-century German polymath Hermann Grassmann; George Boole, whose Boolean logic would prove essential to programming languages and computing; Ernst Schr der, best known for his work on algebraic logic; and Giuseppe Peano, cofounder of mathematical logic.
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