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Blurb: “This book offers both layman and specialist a background for understanding the principles of operation of computing machines and the other new tools of the automation revolution, and demonstrates their relation to mathematics and logic, helping the reader to understand the position of the New Technology in the body of scientific knowledge. The contents include:
Mathematics, Cybernetics, and Logic: What Is Logic? What Is Intelligence? From Idea To Hardware The Principles of Symbolic Logic
Classes (Sets): The Principal Relations Among Classes; The Principle of Dichotomy; Sums and Products; The Complement of Sums and Products; The Deductive System of Classes; The Calculus of Classes
Logical Reasoning: The Principles of Logical Procedure; Basic Rules of Manipulation; The Duality of Sums and Products; Postulates as Formal Definitions of Relations; Pertinent Mathematical Theory
The Algebra of Logic: Boolean Algebra; The Algebra of Sentences; Principia Mathematica; The Binary System; The Construction of Truth Tables
Computing and Machines: Historical Review; Modern Computing Machines
Logic and Circuits: The Computing Machine as a Nervous System; Design Functioning; Basic Circuits; Boolean Algebra and Circuits; Methods of Simplification
Logic and the Principles of Programming: What Is a Program?
Communicating With Machines; Programining
Human Beings and Their Machines: Computing Machines for Tomorrow; Computing Machines of Tomorrow; Machines for Human Beings, or Human Beings for the Machine”